• Resolved epokk

    (@epokk)


    Hello,

    I have been using Relevanssi for long time and I am really very happy with this plugin. I regularly establish statistics on my site. I use in particular the backoffice page of wordpress “users searches”.

    But, since last month, there are some bizarre requests. Research related to “real estate” while my site is not a real estate agency at all ??

    I imagine it must be robots. Is there a way to block this?

    Thank you for your reply !

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  • Plugin Author Mikko Saari

    (@msaari)

    It is spam, and there are ways to block it. See here for more details.

    Thread Starter epokk

    (@epokk)

    Thank you for your reply.
    The problem is, it’s not a URL or a “singular” word. These are conventional words but which normally cannot really appear on my site. (but it is still possible that they appear there :))

    It is as if on a car sales site, we found the words “wood”. Normally, the word “wood” should not be found, except in some special case, for example, a wooden car dashboard. So I don’t know if I should block these words …

    But I guess there is no other solution?

    (sorry for the late response :))”

    Plugin Author Mikko Saari

    (@msaari)

    I agree, you probably shouldn’t block those keywords. Just keyword-blocking doesn’t really help there.

    I would recommend looking at the server access logs to see if there’s a specific bot that’s doing these searches, and if that’s the case, blocking that bot. On one of my sites, I had a big problem with the Bing crawler doing tons and tons of weird searches. I blocked the Bing crawler from the search results: problem solved.

    If it’s common language search terms from a variety of sources, then it’s really hard to block.

    Thread Starter epokk

    (@epokk)

    Thanks Mikko for this great tip! I will look at the acess.log file in detail.

    Thank you !

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