Google rankings and AI citations

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.

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.

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.