Title: Google Bot Lockout
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Google Bot Lockout

 *  [PhoenixOne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixone/)
 * (@phoenixone)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/)
 * 2 questions:
    Is it possible that Ithemes security is blocking Google bot? Is
   it possible that Ithemes security is restricting access to site map? For some
   reason index is being restricted according to Google webmaster and cannot see
   to determine what the issue is. Rankings and pages were indexed and now getting
   errors in webmaster cannot access file?
 * Any ideas would be appreciated.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [iThemes Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithemes-support/)
 * (@ithemes-support)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371627)
 * Hey PheonixOne,
 * Could you try disabling the default blacklist and see if that helps? If it does,
   the release that will be out today may help you with this.
 * Thanks,
 * Gerroald
 *  Thread Starter [PhoenixOne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixone/)
 * (@phoenixone)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371637)
 * We discovered that a robots.tx file was added to disallow google search and our
   site map, it points to another site map with non-english coding.
 * We cannot locate the robots.txt file to delete and cannot locate the substitued
   search map.
 *  [iThemes Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithemes-support/)
 * (@ithemes-support)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371642)
 * Hey PheonixOne,
 * You might want to contact your host on this one. They may be able to help.
 * Thanks,
 * Gerroald
 *  Thread Starter [PhoenixOne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixone/)
 * (@phoenixone)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371643)
 * Confused if we use Ithemes security should it not stop intrusion?
 *  Thread Starter [PhoenixOne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixone/)
 * (@phoenixone)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371644)
 * There is the error we are seeing
    Warning: Missing argument 1 for ITSEC_Lockout::
   __construct(), called in /home/content/00/10381200/html/wp-content/plugins/better-
   wp-security/core/class-itsec-core.php on line 1312 and defined in /home/content/
   00/10381200/html/wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/class-itsec-lockout.
   php on line 15
 * It appears that Ithemes is locking it out.
 *  Thread Starter [PhoenixOne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixone/)
 * (@phoenixone)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371647)
 * I just deactivated plug in and sent a new site map to Google and they were able
   to start indexing map.
 * Please advise on how to proceed with Ithemes.

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 * Last reply from: [PhoenixOne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixone/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-bot-lockout/#post-5371647)
 * Status: not resolved