Title: Googlebot IP Blocked
Last modified: January 24, 2018

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# Googlebot IP Blocked

 *  Resolved [platteneule](https://wordpress.org/support/users/platteneule/)
 * (@platteneule)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/)
 * Good Morning Community!
    I’ve got a question concerning the ip blocking.
 * 2 Weeks ago my wordpress page has been hacked and now I decided to use WP-Cerber.
   
   But not Cerber is logging in ther activity section that the following IP Adress
   is blocked:
 * 66.249.66.153
    crawl-66-249-66-153.googlebot.com 24. January 2018, 9:51AM Reason:
   Probing for vulnerable PHP code
 * I receive this log every 20minutes with different reasons.
    Does this access 
   really come from google? Should I remove the IP Blocking for this IP? I’m a bit
   in worry that this can affect my SEO results.
 * Do I have to fine tune my blocking settings for the google crawl bot? If yes 
   what can I do.
 * It would be so great if you can help me with your advice.
 * Thank you very much! Kevin

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 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/#post-9898931)
 * Hi!
 * This is Google’s IP. No worries, the blocks doesn’t affect SEO. What URL do you
   see on the Activity page for that IP address?
 *  Thread Starter [platteneule](https://wordpress.org/support/users/platteneule/)
 * (@platteneule)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/#post-9898980)
 * Hi Gioni, thanks for the fast reply and the awesome plugin you are providing 
   to the community. Great work.
 * It’s logging a lot of requests by google 2 – 8 minutes since the acitvation of
   the plugin (is it normal) ? These are some requested examples URLs:
 * URL: mywebsite.de/browse.php
    URL: mywebsite.de/merumaga2.php URL: mywebsite.
   de/item/passion-flower.php URL: mywebsite.de/jeyft66-vzodn/2150lbz72-hg3okw0/
   makok.php
 * A lot of strange URLs. I cleaned the website from maleware this morning.
    All
   those URL’s are not related to the content of the website. It’s really strange–
   I don’t know why google is doing it. I’m already conncted to the search console.
 * Cheers,
    Kevin
 *  Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/#post-9899028)
 * If google has indexed your malware links once (like your hacker has installed
   a doorway on your site) they will continue attempts to re-index for a while.
   
   If they get 404 – they will retry. You can explicitly Disallow indexing those
   links in robots.txt or create .htaccess/whatever rules to return 403 status for
   them, this will drive away crawlers faster than 404-not-found
 * But, really, no harm if you just ignore it )
 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/#post-9901620)
 * No worries. Yui has clearly explained.
 *  [manyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manyk/)
 * (@manyk)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/#post-10042434)
 * What about using 410 status (Gone Error) when Google bot tries to access those
   malware links? I think it would be even better than returning 403 status.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [manyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manyk/).

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-ip-blocked/#post-10042434)
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