Title: Googlebot blocked
Last modified: December 4, 2019

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# Googlebot blocked

 *  [leandrocastro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leandrocastro/)
 * (@leandrocastro)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-blocked-2/)
 * My experience was terrible.
    For some reason, apparently this plugin identified
   Googlebot as a threat and simply blocked it. It took me a long time analyzing
   my server logs to understand the problem. I do not recommend.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-blocked-2/)