Bots Ate My Website! (And Why That's Actually a Good Thing for Your Online Future)
In a blink-and-you-miss-it shift, the internet, as we know it, has undergone a quiet revolution. For years, web designers and marketers meticulously crafted online spaces with human eyes and search engine crawlers in mind. We optimized for clarity, speed, and keywords, all aimed at appealing to people browsing and the algorithms indexing our content. However, a seismic change has occurred: at some point in the last year, bots became the biggest website visitors.