Title: PLUGIN BLOCKING  ALL GOOGLE BOTS
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# PLUGIN BLOCKING ALL GOOGLE BOTS

 *  Resolved [Jammin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahlive/)
 * (@jahlive)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-all-google-bots/)
 * Two days ago i’ve notice that google bots was not crawling my site and i went
   in the webmaster tools to find out why,oh well could not find any errors till
   i done a fetch and then it keep coming back “Unreachable” so i had to dig some
   more till i look on my dashboard in my admin panel and saw this plugin keep blocking
   all google ip’s and for them to stop i had to disable the firewall in this plugin
   and now google bots can access my site with out any issues,bing can’t even access
   my site either that keep saying “Unreachable” as well…hope someone can fix this
   because now the plugin is not secure any more because the firewall i had to turn
   off so google bot can access my site again..
 * Top 5 IP’s Blocked
 * IP Country Block Count
 * 52.4.155.81 US 23
    66.249.65.197 US 17 Google bot Block 66.249.65.161 US 15 Google
   bot Block 66.249.65.153 US 11 Google bot Block 66.249.65.133 US 10 Google bot
   Block
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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-all-google-bots/#post-6086297)
 * Hi,
 * Just to confirm you are using the free version and not the paid version of Wordfence,
   correct? Off the top of my head the only way to blog Google traffic totally is
   by country blocking the US which is only available in the paid version of Wordfence.
 * How long has Wordfence been installed on your site? Has Google been able to crawl
   in the past?
 * Thanks!
    Brian
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-all-google-bots/#post-6086373)
 * As an immediate workaround you can whitelist 66.249.65.[1-255] on the options
   page.
 * tim
 *  Thread Starter [Jammin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jahlive/)
 * (@jahlive)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-blocking-all-google-bots/#post-6086435)
 * Thanks for your reply but i turn off all the firewall features in the plugin 
   and using just for live traffic and scan till there is a fixed…

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