How Do You Block Bots In Cloudflare For Free? (2026/669)

Bots are hammering your website, slowing everything down, and messing with your analytics.

You can see suspicious traffic from countries you have never done business with, and blocking those countries does not seem to work. Everyone says to use Cloudflare, but when you get in there, it all seems overwhelming.

In this episode, Charly covers:

✅ Why blocking countries is ineffective against bot traffic and what to do instead
📌 Four essential Cloudflare security rules you can set up on a free account
🔗 How to allow legitimate search engine bots while blocking malicious ones
🛡️ Using the expression builder to create custom rules for user agents and aggressive crawlers

Stop playing whack-a-mole with bot traffic and take control of your website security today.


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About the Author Charly Leetham

Charly Leetham has been in technology for over 40 years - from earning her amateur radio license at 13 to founding and running Ask Charly Leetham, a digital services business serving small businesses worldwide. After losing $1 million in a franchise failure, she rebuilt from scratch and has kept her business running for nearly two decades through skill, systems, and relentless practicality.

She hosts the podcast Rise and Shine - Your Business Tech Boost with Charly Leetham and speaks about what it actually takes to build businesses that work and last - not just look good on paper.

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