Title: blocking good bots
Last modified: March 10, 2021

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# blocking good bots

 *  Resolved [scruffy1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scruffy1/)
 * (@scruffy1)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots/)
 * Hi Bill,
 * For some reason SBB is blocking good bots as shown below.
 * thanks Tracey
 * qwant qwant.com Disabled 3
    qwant.com qwant.com Disabled 0 Qwantify Qwantify 
   Disabled 6

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 *  Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * (@sminozzi)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots/#post-14163190)
 * Hi Tracey,
 * Bots can be blocked by IP, string, user agent and other.
 * Try to put them in the whitelist.
    Go to visitors table and click whitelist.
 * cheers,
    Bill
 *  Thread Starter [scruffy1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scruffy1/)
 * (@scruffy1)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots/#post-14163201)
 * Hi Bill,
 * I did click whitelist IP and qwant is still getting blocked
 * Thanks,
 * Tracye
 *  Plugin Author [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * (@sminozzi)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots/#post-14163284)
 * Hi Tracye,
 * Please, visit our support site:
 * [http://BillMinozzi.com/support/](http://BillMinozzi.com/support/)
 * I need request more info but not here.
 * Cheers,
    Bill

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 * Last reply from: [sminozzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sminozzi/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-good-bots/#post-14163284)
 * Status: resolved