# How to block all crawlers but Google's

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-block-all-crawlers-but-googles/62431
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [10 mei 2017 om 14:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-block-all-crawlers-but-googles/62431 "2017-05-10T14:28:43Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [21 juli 2019 om 10:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-block-all-crawlers-but-googles/62431/12 "2019-07-21T10:59:08Z")

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This is now possible via site settings, search for “crawler”, specifically `blocked crawler user agents`. There is also `allowed crawler user agents` if you want to be _very_ strict and disallow everything except a specific crawler.

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