Comment by weird-eye-issue
11 hours ago
No it's not just a label because it's a category that gets used in the firewall settings. A lot of sites allow only verified bots and block non-verified ones. So yes as I already mentioned website owners can of course block verified bots but it's much much less common than blocking non-verified ones because most site owners don't want to accidentally deindex their site from Google...
You get to decide per bot. Or per category: https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/verified... You can make for that Google or all indexers are always allowed.
Yes of course but most people are not doing that they simply turn on bot fight mode or similar which excludes verified bots...