Googlebot IP Blocked

  • Resolved platteneule

    (@platteneule)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Good Morning Community!
    I’ve got a question concerning the ip blocking.

    2 Weeks ago my wordpress page has been hacked and now I decided to use WP-Cerber.
    But not Cerber is logging in ther activity section that the following IP Adress is blocked:

    66.249.66.153
    crawl-66-249-66-153.googlebot.com
    24. January 2018, 9:51AM
    Reason: Probing for vulnerable PHP code

    I receive this log every 20minutes with different reasons.
    Does this access really come from google? Should I remove the IP Blocking for this IP? I’m a bit in worry that this can affect my SEO results.

    Do I have to fine tune my blocking settings for the google crawl bot? If yes what can I do.

    It would be so great if you can help me with your advice.

    Thank you very much! Kevin

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  • Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    Hi!

    This is Google’s IP. No worries, the blocks doesn’t affect SEO. What URL do you see on the Activity page for that IP address?

    Thread Starter platteneule

    (@platteneule)

    Hi Gioni, thanks for the fast reply and the awesome plugin you are providing to the community. Great work.

    It’s logging a lot of requests by google 2 – 8 minutes since the acitvation of the plugin (is it normal) ? These are some requested examples URLs:

    URL: mywebsite.de/browse.php
    URL: mywebsite.de/merumaga2.php
    URL: mywebsite.de/item/passion-flower.php
    URL: mywebsite.de/jeyft66-vzodn/2150lbz72-hg3okw0/makok.php

    A lot of strange URLs. I cleaned the website from maleware this morning.
    All those URL’s are not related to the content of the website. It’s really strange – I don’t know why google is doing it. I’m already conncted to the search console.

    Cheers,
    Kevin

    Moderator Yui

    (@fierevere)

    永子

    If google has indexed your malware links once (like your hacker has installed a doorway on your site) they will continue attempts to re-index for a while.
    If they get 404 – they will retry. You can explicitly Disallow indexing those links in robots.txt or create .htaccess/whatever rules to return 403 status for them, this will drive away crawlers faster than 404-not-found

    But, really, no harm if you just ignore it )

    Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    No worries. Yui has clearly explained.

    What about using 410 status (Gone Error) when Google bot tries to access those malware links? I think it would be even better than returning 403 status.

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