Title: Google Can't Crawl
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Google Can't Crawl

 *  Resolved [spilledlitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spilledlitter/)
 * (@spilledlitter)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-cant-crawl/)
 * Hi, my site was recently hacked, and after cleaning everything up and activating
   the firewall setting in wordfence (free), google can’t fetch or crawl my site.
   There are no restrictions on my robots.txt that would cause this, and i’m using
   the free version of wordfence, so it can’t be the country restriction. I have
   the “immediately block fake google crawlers” unchecked, and all rate limits set
   to 60/min.
    Any suggestions or thoughts on what is causing this? Site is [http://spilled-glitter.com/](http://spilled-glitter.com/)
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Thread Starter [spilledlitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spilledlitter/)
 * (@spilledlitter)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-cant-crawl/#post-7704423)
 * Oh and the Google’s Crawlers are being treated as “Verified google crawlers have
   unlimited access”
 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-cant-crawl/#post-7704633)
 * Hi,
    Please let me know the result of “[Fetch as Google test](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066468?hl=en&rd=2)“,
   and “[robots.txt Tester](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en)“.
 * When you perform both tests, go to (Wordfence > Live Traffic) and watch for “
   googlebot” in the log.
 * P.S. make sure there is no other plugin blocking Google’s crawlers (disable all
   of them -temporarily- and re-check), and there is no custom code added in .htaccess
   file doing the same thing.
 * Let me know how it goes,
    Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [spilledlitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spilledlitter/)
 * (@spilledlitter)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-cant-crawl/#post-7704648)
 * I figured it out – it was in the httaccess file.
    All is working well again 🙂

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 * [google crawler](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/google-crawler/)
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 * Last reply from: [spilledlitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spilledlitter/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-cant-crawl/#post-7704648)
 * Status: resolved