What strategies did you use? Other than quitting social media, blocking crawlers and enforcing an "email-wall" is what I just started to do with my personal website. I feel that it's hard to stay on top of "pretty please" robots.txt requests, especially with new, undeclared ones. I prefer word-of-mouth diffusion of links, skipping the algorithmic promotion game altogether. I decided that I won't ever rely on my online writings, recordings, or photography as main income again (I did that once: it worked, but it felt gradually poisoned by the need to build engagement.) But it feels weird that we got to the point where I have to shield a blog from bulimic information machines that pollute valuable knowledge, and I wonder what the right strategy is.