Title: SEMrush Blocked – SOLVED
Last modified: December 9, 2019

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# SEMrush Blocked – SOLVED

 *  Resolved [sagency](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdagency/)
 * (@sdagency)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/semrush-blocked-solved/)
 * Had a client with a SEO company who could not get SEMrush to crawl the site.
 * Here is how we temporarily allowed access to SEMrush:
 * 1. Login to WP
    2. Go to WP Security in the left Dashboard 3. Go to Firewall 
   then the Internet Bots tab 4. Uncheck “Block Fake Googlebots” 5. Click the Save
   Internet Bot Settings button 6. When finished with SEMrush report, reverse the
   procedure so the Block Fake Googlebots item is checked and hit the Save Internet
   Bot Settings button
 * Hope this helps someone else.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/semrush-blocked-solved/#post-12221131)
 * Hi, thank you for providing those steps.
 * I am just curious about something. Did you try using a different global variable
   located under **Settings -> Advanced Settings** tab?
 * I am interesting to know if it is a global variable causing this issue or not.
 * Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [sagency](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdagency/)
 * (@sdagency)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/semrush-blocked-solved/#post-12221147)
 * No we didn’t try that sorry. Hope this helps though.
 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/semrush-blocked-solved/#post-12221160)
 * No problem, once again thank you for sharing your solution.

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## Tags

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 * [IP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ip/)
 * [semrush](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/semrush/)

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 * Last reply from: [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/semrush-blocked-solved/#post-12221160)
 * Status: resolved