Currently I have faced issued in one of my wordpress site that someone has setup bot to crawl my whole site. Q: How I know that bot crawl my site? Ans: I have seen +500% clicks on my affiliate dashboard from my website. After that, I have login to server and check logs of last days and found one i…

If you set your login_required setting to true, bots will not be able to crawl your forum.

Thank you for your suggestion. If i set to true of login_required setting, then all users has to do login the forum. May be it hurt in seo like if someone come from google search engine then they has to login first to read the content. Also, i have doubt regarding how google, bing bot crawl if i …

Thank you to all your support and suggestion for guiding me to my small queries. I have read below thread and read other topic but could not find exact “how to check logs for bots”. [image] Search Logs Page megaphoneAnnouncements Now that we have search loggi…

How to protect myself from bots crawling my Discourse instance?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 19, 2019, 11:21am 4

Search for “crawler” in site settings.

Use the blocked crawler user agents and allowed crawler user agents site settings.

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How to protect myself from bots crawling my Discourse instance?

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