Title: BPS Security Blocking Search Engines Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # BPS Security Blocking Search Engines * Resolved [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/) * Few weeks ago installed and configured BPS security on my site and it worked just fine. But few days ago the plugin started to block all the search engines from crawling my site. after removing the plugin everything worked just fine. Please provide a solution for this. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/) Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453758) * BPS does not contain any htaccess code that would or could block search engines. Did you add any additional custom htaccess code to your root htaccess file that is capable of doing something like that? * site:ait-pro.com – shows around 4,100 indexed pages by Google. * Thread Starter [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453859) * I didnt add any custom code in my .htaccess file thats why it was hard for me to found out that this plugin was the one blocking the search engines from crawling my site. I have been using this plugin on many sites but i never had any problem with it until now. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453868) * Well BPS does not block Search Engines from crawling a website because it does not contain htaccess code that can do that. So in order to figure out exactly what the issue/problem is please explain exactly why you think BPS was blocking Search Engines from crawling your site. What did you see that made you think BPS was causing the problem? Thanks. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453869) * pending user info to correctly diagnose whatever issue is occuring. * Thread Starter [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453890) * Well I was receiving 403 errors from webmaster tools which later after doing some troubleshooting something i didnt find any problem so i decided to uninstall bps security after that the problem was solved and I dont use any other security plugins more than BPS. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453891) * Well not really sure what happened then. I have never seen a 403 error that was related to BPS in my Google Webmaster Tools account so not really sure what to tell ya. 😉 * Thread Starter [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453893) * I thin it was just a temporary error because this error occurred only to one of my sites am using BPS Security. Others are doing fine. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453894) * Well if you want to see if any problems are occuring again on the site then you can use the Google Webmaster Tools >>> Health >>> Fetch as Google tool. This will tell you if Google is running into any problems getting to your website’s posts or pages. Let me know what happens. Thanks. * Thread Starter [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453901) * Thank you for your classy customer support…I really appreciate it. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453903) * You can thank WP’s Otto “OttoDestruct” for that. He taught me a valuable lesson in how to stay focused on maintaining your professionalism at all times. If your goal is always to fix a problem then it is hard for your ego to take control and cause you to rant and rave. LOL * Thread Starter [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453910) * He taught you something valuable you know. I have never seen any wordpress plugin developer who provides classy support like you. Congrats bro. Keep it up! * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453911) * Yeah man and thanks man. The lesson came with some shame and some pain, but I have found that a little pain ensures that you remember those life lessons. LOL * Thread Starter [Young Master](https://wordpress.org/support/users/young-master/) * (@young-master) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bps-security-blocking-search-engines/#post-3453913) * Thanks bro…I will take serious consideration of your advice. Once again thank you very much. 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