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That’s weird but I’d like to know the answer to that question too.
Mountainguy, that’s the funniest blocked page I have ever read. Had me in stitches. Wordfence people – take note of this and adopt accordingly.
I have to agree here too, there should be no information at all on the blocked page, nothing referring to the plugin, or what happened.
The IP’s that are blocked are for a serious attack or reason, best not to give them the details on why. The less info the better.Tried rate limiting, they still get through, the only thing that worked is banning msnbots and their IP ranges. But I still see them being blocked every day, approximately 10 a day or more.
Thanks Mountainguy, yes it is the next frontier to tackle search bots that are somehow rigged and are faked.
As said, I sent msn/bing all the info on bad links coming from specific sites, that I suspect are sending the bad traffic. they expect me to wait until their bots hit the correct pages/posts on my site even though they have a clear sitemap. It’s been four months now I finally told them to follow Google’s search bots and just copy them which are accurate.Wolf: in my case whomever is using msnbots have somehow engineered fake links (meaning the url’s do not exist on my site) and I am no expert but its done by scripting the link.
Example: http://mysite.com/BadLinkhere/
They add the bad link at the end of the url.There is very little I can do to stop it and msn/bing refuse to check these links and find where they are coming from or disavow them. It’s very frustrating, I don’t have the time to investigate nor a tech team to help.
Yes, they are “fantasy links” that do not exist on your site or mine.
What do they gain? I do believe they send traffic to their spammy sites this way, using our websites but don’t know how to prevent it.
I have traced a few of these sites and some are non-existent domains, meaning they don’t have a website, they are just a domain name.I have used robots.txt to ban msnbots and yandex bots, so far only yandex is adhering to it.
If it’s any consolation, I have a similar problem with MSNbots, sending bad links. I discussed with them, sent them a list, they did nothing. So, since I don’t need their traffic (Google is primary search engine) I block MSNbots. It seems they are too busy making billions to bother about website owners.
YES, I second that, next feature should be rename wp-login page.
Okay thanks, I guess the other plugin kicks in first. Great plugin you have created, I’ve used AISEO for many years.
Hi Arnaud: Thanks for your response, but I have had bad bots hit our website, I have another security plugin that tracks them. I also added: Yandex, Yandex Spider, to block but they have hit the site in the past few days.
When I check the “Log of Bad Bots” its empty.Shouldn’t it show the bots whether the other plugin blocked them or not?
Thanks for your help. AIOSEO is a great plugin regardless.Hackers inflict the most pain on the most sites with large hosting companies.
I understand the situation totally and misrepresenting it doesn’t help.
Um. No. This forum is owned by WordPress.org as I mentioned for all plugin users.
It is this forum where you ask questions, discuss or give feedback.No one asks you to sign up for Wordfence or buy it’s Premium Version, that I can recall, its up to you.
No, I am not employed by Wordfence.
I’ve been a free version user for about 4 months and am now a Premium Version fully paid customer.If you’re talking about a Fresh Set of Eyes as you put it -FYI – I’ve worked with WordPress websites, for about 10 years and this is the best security plugin I’ve seen in that length of time. No one has misled me or performed any misleading acts as you claim.
You can check the IP addresses yourself: just google “find IP address on a map and that will let you know if they should be accessing, or added but I doubt it.
Do you have the Firewall fully ON? It should be if you said you switched off learning mode.
Your IP addresses: one is from Ukraine, one from France and one from Optimum Online in the USA.You sign up for plugin support through https://wordpress.org to access this Support Forum.
If you are a paid subscriber and bought the Premium Version THEN you will be given access to the login for Wordfence Premium Support system.
This forum is for everyone to ask questions, find solutions and the support staff here are excellent.
I think you are a little confused.Jay, since you are now on the Pro Version, you need to use the support ticket system in your Pro-Version. This forum is for the free version.