Title: Maxmind questions
Last modified: October 19, 2020

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# Maxmind questions

 *  Resolved [Ash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashbryant/)
 * (@ashbryant)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maxmind-questions/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a question about location blocking. In the settings it says…
 * > Ban countries you don’t expect/want traffic from to protect your site from 
   > unwanted hackers and bots in a specific location.
 * Would this block them from trying to access the admin area or the whole site (
   ie. the frontend)? Also, would this affect search bots?
 * Thanks
    Ash

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 *  [Kris – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport13/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport13)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maxmind-questions/#post-13558414)
 * Hi [@ashbryant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashbryant/)
 * I hope you are doing good today.
 * > Would this block them from trying to access the admin area or the whole site
 *  Locations feature covers a whole domain, including backend and frontend.
 * > Also, would this affect search bots?
 * Google, Bing, or Yahoo provide ways to check if that IP is real or not, so we
   whitelist those by default, but not for the others. For those other bots there
   no way to know do they are bots or just fake.
 * Also according to Google support
    [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6144055?hl=en](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6144055?hl=en)
 * > As we have always recommended, when Googlebot appears to come from a certain
   > country, treat it like you would treat any other user from that country. This
   > means that if you block USA-based users from accessing your content, but allow
   > visitors from Australia to see it, your server should block a Googlebot that
   > appears to be coming from the USA, but allow access to a Googlebot that appears
   > to come from Australia.
 *  we will have in future a feature to blocklist/allowlist User Agents.
 * Kind Regards,
    Kris
 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maxmind-questions/#post-13578513)
 * Hi [@ashbryant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashbryant/)
 * I hope you are doing well.
 * We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll go and mark this thread as resolved.
 * However, feel free to let us know if you have any additional question or problem.
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas

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