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#11299 – Blocked Robot

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024 17:48 UTC

zsuzsa

Hi Yannick,

Im trying to figure out why the site is blocked for every yandex bot.

Could you please help me with some hint, as checking the robot.txt file did not saw some explanation for this.

Thank you in advance image attached

https://od.lk/s/NjFfODgwMzA1NThf/blocked.png

Thursday, 12 September 2024 07:02 UTC

wb_weeblr

Your test shows a 403 - Access forbidden error, so that's not coming from robots.txt (which does not block access in any way).

This is not from 4SEO either, which have no way of blocking based on the visitor user agent.

It could be from 4SEO if YOU added a blocking rule (under SEO Tools | SEO Rules) and deliberately blocked Yandex robots IP addresses.

I assume you did not do that, so possible options are:

- something in your .htaccess file

- a "security" extension installed on your site, maybe blocking visits from Russia (where Yandex is)

- a firewall by your hosting company

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Saturday, 14 September 2024 07:50 UTC

zsuzsa

Thanks a lot Yannick, yes it was a result of various configs... Firewall blocked Russia, and admin toold blocked clecific user agents, thank you fo your hint its fixed now!

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