John Mueller explained that impressions in Google's Search Console AI report track links to your pages, and user-activated links only count after they're activated.

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Microsoft Clarity's Bot Analytics dashboard now detects when bots request URLs your robots.txt disallows, with trends and filters by bot and operator.

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