AI is everywhere—analyzing, indexing, and learning from the content we put online. While there are legitimate uses for AI crawling (like improving search or powering helpful tools), not every bot that visits your site has your best interest in mind. That’s why we’re now offering an AI bot-blocking add-on to our hosting services.
Here are a few reasons why you might want to block AI bots from accessing your website:
1. Protect Original Content from Being Scraped or Repurposed
If you’ve spent time writing blog posts, crafting service descriptions, or optimizing copy for your brand, you don’t want that work scraped and regurgitated by an AI somewhere else. Blocking AI bots helps you maintain control over how your content is used and where it shows up.
2. Preserve Competitive Advantage
Some AI models pull data from websites to train systems that might later be used by your competitors. Blocking these bots helps limit the chances your site is used as a silent contributor to tools your rivals could benefit from. If you’re in a niche market, this matters even more.
3. Reduce Server Load and Bandwidth Use
AI bots often scan websites more aggressively than humans, which can slow down your site or eat up resources—especially if you’re on a limited hosting plan. Blocking them can keep your site faster and more responsive for the people who actually matter: your real users.
4. Limit Exposure of Personal or Sensitive Information
Even if your site doesn’t share sensitive data outright, you may have information (like testimonials, employee names, or email addresses) that you don’t want being scraped and fed into an AI’s long-term memory. Blocking bots puts up a barrier between your content and that kind of automated harvesting.
5. You Just Don’t Want to Contribute to AI Training
Let’s be honest—some people are just not cool with their site being used to train large models they never agreed to help. Whether it’s on principle or for strategic reasons, opting out of AI crawling is your right, and we’re here to support that.
How to Block AI Bots from Your Website
We can enable AI bot blocking on any site we host for just $7.95/month. It takes just a minute to set up and will instantly limit access from bots associated with major AI providers.
If you’re ready to lock the digital door, just shoot us a message and we’ll get it turned on.