Title: Will your plugin help? Last modified: April 19, 2019 --- # Will your plugin help? * Resolved [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/) * Hi! I have a big trouble with bots who make very bad bounce rate to my site, to make my SEO awful. * They mostly load one page and disappear. * Most of them are mobile traffic. * Most plugins identify them as a real users with 0 time and 💯 bounce rate. * Will your plugin help ? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447589) * It should help, this plugin will block bad bots from visiting your site. I recommend reading all the documentation thoroughly to get a better understanding of how it works, what is required, what not to do, and so forth. Let me know if anything isn’t clear, glad to help. * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447616) * That bad robots doesn’t load several pages, they just load one, waint 2 seconds and leave. * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447660) * Yeah probably not the best choice for stopping a specific, targeted attack. * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447674) * Thank you for support, may be you have an idea how to fight such a treat? * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447680) * Does the user agent of the bot remain the same for every request? * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447703) * unfortunately not, but mostly it’s a mobile traffic. * Examples: * Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 ( KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 YaBrowser/19.3.3.161.10 Mobile/15E148 Safari/ 605.1 * Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; Lenovo A5000 Build/LRX21M) AppleWebKit/537.36( KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.86 Mobile Safari/537.36 * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447709) * It seems they also use them for some comment spam https:// cleantalk. org/blacklists/ as29209 * ( I put some extra spaces in Link ) * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447724) * Then is the target URL constant (i.e., always the same)? * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447730) * yes, its always the same, the best page of my business, the best ranging too.( was before they did all this ) * It was TOP 1 for lots of keywords, now 20-30th * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447769) * Yeah sounds like a targeted attack. You may want to look at something like Cloudflare DDoS protection service. * Also keep in mind that almost every public site gets tons of bots and high bounce rates. There have been tests that show it has no measurable impact on SERPs. Also Google SEO employees have stated bounce rates have no impact on SERPs. Yes there are many reasons why you want to minimize bounce rate for good SEO, but it’s probably not the reason your site is suffering in the SERPs. * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447852) * In this analytics system (Yandex Metrika) they already filter all bots etc, this site entries are shown as “real people”, but I’m sure it is some kind of software, I can’t believe bounce rate can change from 7% to 70% in one day :)) * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/Pagf8U5) - This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/). * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447872) * You may want to ask Yandex about it? * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447879) * Yes, I already did 3 times, but I cant find a real person, just an automated answers – “it’s ok we filter all bots, it cant affect etc, don’t worry )” * Thread Starter [yurann2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yurann2000/) * (@yurann2000) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447935) * Jeff, thank you very much for support!! * Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * (@specialk) * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447955) * You’re welcome! 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘Will your plugin help?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/blackhole-bad-bots/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1471215) * [Blackhole for Bad Bots](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blackhole-bad-bots/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/blackhole-bad-bots/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blackhole-bad-bots/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blackhole-bad-bots/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blackhole-bad-bots/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blackhole-bad-bots/reviews/) * 15 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/) * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-your-plugin-help/#post-11447955) * Status: resolved