Created by: Bill Minozzi
STOP BAD BOTS
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Important: Read Before Installing:
This plugin scans your website for potential issues and provides suggestions before install.
To skip the check (proceed at your own risk):
Click “Next” three times, then click “Finished”.
Bots can have a negative impact on your website in a number of ways. They can overload your server, which can cause performance problems such as slowness and longer response times. They can also look for vulnerabilities in your website and steal your content, which can damage your SEO.
Stop Bad Bots, SPAM bots, Crawlers and spiders without DNS Cloud or API (EndPoint) Traffic Redirection and without slow down your site. No google penalties. Multilanguage ready. Included also Dutch, French, Germany, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese language files.
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Italian: Blocca bot dannosi, bot SPAM, crawler e spider senza DNS Cloud o reindirizzamento del traffico API (EndPoint) e senza rallentare il tuo sito. Nessuna sanzione su Google. Tradotto in italiano.
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Português: Bloqueia Bots, SPAM bots, Crawlers e spiders sem DNS Cloud ou API (EndPoint) redirecionamento de tráfego e sem deixar seu site lento. Sem penalidades do Google. Traduzido em Português.
If you’re in a hurry and don’t want to spend much time configuring the plugin, consider installing our Beginner-Friendly Anti BOts Plugin instead.
Introducing our new comprehensive visits log page with Ajax-powered traffic monitoring. Analyze and dive deep into the visits your website receives, including hack attempts. And yes, you will know when Googlebot visits you (googlebot, big, Twitter, Facebook and other bots). Take full control by effortlessly adding visitors to the blacklist or whitelist with a single click when needed.
New Feature: Our plugin now offers a comprehensive set of analytics tools, providing insightful data on your website’s performance. With daily and monthly visit counts, referral sources, page visit metrics, and visitor engagement statistics, you gain a clear understanding of your site’s traffic patterns and user behavior. Additionally, interactive charts and summaries highlight the reasons behind blocked attempts, empowering you with actionable insights. Explore our analytics suite to track human visitors and distinguish them from bots, providing a holistic view of your website’s performance and ensuring an accurate assessment of its impact.
With the exponential increase of AI tools, expect the increase of sophisticated bot attacks. Protect your site from advanced bots and AI-powered attacks with our comprehensive bot protection solution.
Stop Bad Bots is completely self-contained and does not need to connect to any outside API or service. No DNS, API or Cloud Traffic Redirection. No Slow Down Your Site!
No .htaccess neither robots.txt required.
When a bad bot try to open any your WordPress page we show a 403 Forbidden page. Then, in your statistics like webalizer or visitor metrics, for example, you can see status 403 (forbidden) and 0 bytes. For more details, visit our online guide and FAQ page.
You don’t need create robots.txt neither touch your .htaccess file.
Easily integrated with our anti hacker plugin to add an extra layer of protection and prevent also hacker bots. You can find more details about Anti Hacker below.
Demo Video
Demo Video Ajax-powered Traffic Monitoring
Online Documentation
StartUp Guide
FAQ Page
Plugin Site
Compatible With Anti Hacker Plugin
This plugin allows you to monitor the average load time for each page (page speed test) on your site, generate a chart showcasing the load times for the past 7 days, and identify the 20 slowest-loading pages.
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Block spammers, hackers, crawlers, spiders and malicious traffic.
If you are getting a lot of spam and malicious traffic from China, Cuba and North Korea, with our plugin
you can block them without worry about install (and mantain) huge databases of IP address.
Just let our plugin take care that (Premium).
This plugin let you ban users by IP, user agent and referrer url.
If you want protect ALL pages of yoursite against hackers and their bots, try this free plugin:
Anti Hacker free plugin
We recommend and facilitate the installation of this free plugin, with just one click, on our plugin dashboard, visible immediately after installing Stop Bad Bots.
Disable Pingback
Malware Scanner
Scan your site now before Google blacklists it or your web host takes it down.
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This plugin is not about Analytics Spam referrals.
For more details about that, please, visit our FAQ page:
http://stopbadbots.com/faq/
and look for Analytics SPAM referral
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The changelog.txt contains changelog entries, so we can keep the size of the standard WordPress readme.txt file reasonable.
If the settings of Stop Bad Bots is “Standard or Maximum Block”, we can test some visitors Ip
from the RIPE database. We send only the IP number of your visitor.
The RIPE will provide important information about your visitor’s IP that will allow us to identify their hosting.
This is a free service. Ripe is a not-for-profit membership association.
RIPE NCC Privacy Statement:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/legal/ripe-ncc-privacy-statement
If the ‘Receive bot’s table updates by participating in the Real-Time Bad Bots Security Network’
option in the StopBadBots plugin settings is enabled, your site can share information about bots with StopBadBots.
In return, your WordPress site will receive bot’s table updates.
The collected data includes: bot ip, bot user agent, time
We will update our database with bot information and release it to you by updating your database every 4 months.
This plugin is a service. If you choose the premium version, your site will receive weekly updates for its bot, IP, and referrer tables.
Only in this case, when applying your purchase code, it will be sent to our server, which will return whether it is valid or not.
The Stop Bad Bots plugin will retrieve tips and news from our site BillMinozzi.com. This information will be displayed in the plugin dashboard, in the right-hand column under the title “Tips and News.” No data is sent to our server. Learn about the terms of use for our plugins and themes at this link:
https://siterightaway.net/terms-of-use-of-our-plugins-and-themes/
To learn more details about the StopBadBots plugin and look the bots table, visit the plugin site.