How can a website owner prevent Cloudflare Error 1033 from affecting legitimate search engine crawlers or known good bots?

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How can a website owner prevent Cloudflare Error 1033 from affecting legitimate search engine crawlers or known good bots?
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Website owners can prevent Cloudflare Error 1033 from affecting legitimate crawlers by utilizing Cloudflare's Bot Management features. Ensure 'Bot Fight Mode' or 'Super Bot Fight Mode' is configured correctly. For custom Firewall Rules, consider creating rules to 'Allow' specific known user agents or IP ranges associated with major search engines (like Googlebot, Bingbot). Alternatively, ensure that existing WAF rules are not overly aggressive and include exceptions for legitimate bot traffic, or set the action to 'Skip' for trusted bots.