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What to do when bots hit your WordPress site: An action plan
Learn how to implement a four-step plan to handle bot traffic to your WordPress website. An actionable guide with a full checklist.
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Why AI agents need guardrails instead of unlimited access
Leaving an AI agent to run tasks without oversight will cause problems. This post looks at how to build guardrails for agentic AI!
The 7 biggest mistakes site owners make after discovering AI bot traffic
Managing AI bot traffic starts with knowing what the bots are doing. Learn seven mistakes site owners make and how to respond.
Why AI makes infrastructure decisions more important
Learn how AI bot traffic impacts your website and why Kinsta hosting infrastructure gives your business a competitive edge in the AI era.
Why AI crawlers are breaking the rules of web-crawling
AI crawlers ignore robots.txt, loop through dynamic URLs, and return nothing. Here's how to manage them in MyKinsta.
The hidden cost of bot traffic on WordPress: what bandwidth reports don’t show
Bot traffic carries a lot of hidden costs with it. Learn what they are and how you can best protect your site.
AI crawlers vs. bot protection vs. robots.txt vs. llms.txt: what actually controls AI access?
See what each file actually does, why llms.txt can't block AI crawlers, and how to actually control AI access on WordPress.
Kinsta Bot Protection vs. Cloudflare: What’s the difference, and which should you use?
Compare Kinsta bot protection and Cloudflare’s bot tools to see how they differ, when to use each, and which option fits your WordPress site.
How to distinguish traffic from bots to identify real visits, helpful bots, and harmful attacks
Knowing who's actually visiting your site matters. Learn how to distinguish traffic from bots to spot real visits, helpful bots, and attacks.