Originally Posted by Hulk

Not sure what you are talking about, but website/traffic is monetizing decently, even with no activity or promotion on my side.

Google Ads know very well what kind of traffic and how much of it has been sent from Google SE. They would charge $50k/month for such quantity & quality. Bots or humans, that's the price. It is take it or leave it situation, no bargaining with Google. Anyway, I am pretty sure that is a very accurate traffic value estimation, from Google's point of view.

BTW, not sure if blocking bots is a clever idea, but you are free to do whatever you want with your websites... Good luck with that and cheers!