Bots eating up all the bandwidth

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danieltj
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Re: Bots eating up all the bandwidth

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fuolo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 9:21 am won't this have negative impact on SEO if the crawlers are blocked?
Yes and no. Obviously, if you block a bot and they honour it then they will not index your forum but the bots that are being blocked here aren't necessarily 'good bots' that you would want to allow access to your forum in the first place.

It's important to make sensible decisions when it comes to bots and their access. Blocking Google will prevent your forum from being index in the future so if Google is visiting your site too much, you might need to look at other methods over basic banning so to speak.
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Re: Bots eating up all the bandwidth

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There is Baidu and Yandex in the list, which are also search engines and competitors of Google, relying on Google too much can backfire, but if someone doesn't want russian speaking and chinese speaking traffic then I guess it is fine ;) also not sure about Facebook and Apple, if there can be some drawback but probably not.

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