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Cloudflare's AI block names eight crawlers. None is ChatGPT's search botA 53-point r/SEO warning about Cloudflare's managed robots.txt names ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. The block list reaches none of the three, and a separate Cloudflare default changes on 15 September 2026.

Re-hosting Amazon's images is prohibited. Resizing them is the one permissionThe 24 hours everyone quotes attaches to the link, not to the image. The image file gets no storage window at all, and a proportional resize is the only edit the program permits.

Amazon publishes no PA-API shutdown date. The real gate is ten salesAmazon's own docs banner said April 30th, then said May 15th, then the page stopped resolving. No current Amazon page carries a date, and what actually stands in a new site's way is an eligibility rule instead.

Why ChatGPT cites your site while Google ignores itTwo retrieval systems that read two different webs, about 12% overlap, and one widely cited study that measured AI Overviews, not Google rankings.

Amazon does not ban link shorteners. 6(w) is a manner testI read the Operating Agreement and the Program Policies. The shortener clause is a manner test, the cloaking clause points at Amazon, not at your reader.

Batched re-evaluation is a 2016 behaviour Google removedGoogle turned batched re-evaluation off in 2016 and said so. The two Search Console statuses everyone reads as verdicts carry no quality language.