Title: Googlebot Blocked
Last modified: September 18, 2018

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# Googlebot Blocked

 *  Resolved [HappyOutlet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonpiehl/)
 * (@jonpiehl)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-blocked/)
 * I woke up this morning to find my website not listed on Google! It appears Wordfence
   was blocking Googlebots from crawling my website. I haven’t made any recent changes
   to the Wordfence configuration so I don’t know why this suddenly happened. I 
   had to turn off rate limiting and do a Fetch as Google/Request Indexing to get
   my site back on Google. Has anyone else experienced this?

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 *  Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/)
 * (@wfphil)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-blocked/#post-10725033)
 * Hi,
 * I have seen several people accidentally block Googlebot as they didn’t fully 
   understand the advanced custom blocking options, so that may be the cause here
   too.
 * Please look through any custom advanced blocks you have created and see if you
   have accidentally blocked Googlebot there. If you are not sure what to look for
   then delete all custom advanced blocks you have created.
 * Once you have found or cleared all custom advanced blocks then enable the option“**
   Enable Rate Limiting and Advanced Blocking**” again and do a fetch as Google 
   request from your Google Search Console account and see if that is now resolved.
 * Thank you.
 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-blocked/#post-10787838)
 * Hi [@jonpiehl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonpiehl/),
    Since we haven’t
   heard from you for a while I’m going to go ahead and resolve this thread. You
   are welcome to create a new one at any time!

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 * [googlebot](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/googlebot/)
 * [Rate Limiting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rate-limiting/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-blocked/#post-10787838)
 * Status: resolved