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Does Bad Behavior block search engines such as Google?

April 26, 2017bad Behavior block google search engines

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Does Bad Behavior block search engines such as Google?

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No. Bad Behavior permits search engines which respect robots.txt and do not make excessive numbers of requests within a short time period. Google, Yahoo, MSN and most other search engine crawlers do not trigger Bad Behavior. If you notice that a search engine crawler has been banned by Bad Behavior, you can be certain that it was wasting your resources, not obeying robots.txt, or both.