Suspicious Bots

  • Resolved larsenja

    (@larsenja)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I have been running in “debug” mode to see if there are any rules I should turn off. I’m seeing a ton of bot traffic from ahrefs and majestic being listed as “suspicious” bot activity.

    I’m assuming ninjafirewall prevents those from accessing. If that’s the case, doesn’t that mess with SEO reporting from those various services? What about MOZ?

    I can only see where one can turn on / off suspicious bot filtering. I don’t see where one can customize what is allowed / disallowed. Is there a master list somewhere?

    Thanks for your help!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ninjafirewall/

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  • Plugin Author nintechnet

    (@nintechnet)

    Hi,

    There are indeed blocked.
    I don’t think there is any issue with SEO reporting, the blots are blocked before WordPress is loaded.

    You cannot select/add/remove them individually in the free WP Edition, you can only turn the feature on/off.

    Thread Starter larsenja

    (@larsenja)

    OK. Thank you. Out of curiosity, why are ahrefs and majestic specifically blocked as being suspicious?

    Plugin Author nintechnet

    (@nintechnet)

    A lot of users requested to have them blocked, thus we added them to the list.

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