Title: Blocking ip’s issue
Last modified: July 27, 2021

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# Blocking ip’s issue

 *  Resolved [sahuaro007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sahuaro007/)
 * (@sahuaro007)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ips-issue/)
 * Hi,
 * I have up to date my wordpress and my wordfence plugin.
 * I tried to block a ip range on blocking section and then on live traffic I can
   see visits from that ip’s with http code 200 as you can see on the image:
    [https://ibb.co/LnYpTmX](https://ibb.co/LnYpTmX)
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Plugin Support [WFAdam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfadam/)
 * (@wfadam)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ips-issue/#post-14708208)
 * Hello [@sahuaro007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sahuaro007/) and thanks
   for reaching out to us!
 * Can you also show me a screenshot of the block you have set up for this on your
   Wordfence > Firewall > Blocking page?
 * Thanks again!
 *  Thread Starter [sahuaro007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sahuaro007/)
 * (@sahuaro007)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ips-issue/#post-14712819)
 * Hi Adam, thanks for your response.
 * Here you can see how I tried to block googlebot.
    [https://ibb.co/dG9Hwtz](https://ibb.co/dG9Hwtz)
 * I have a few wordpress instalations (all with wordfence, sure!) and using this
   way I can block all googlebot ips but not on this site.
 * I will try using hostname.
 *  Thread Starter [sahuaro007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sahuaro007/)
 * (@sahuaro007)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ips-issue/#post-14712841)
 *     ```
       Hi Adam,
   
       Now I have three records on blocking table, IP range, hostmane, and browser agent, but I can't stop googlebot.
   
       The only way to stop googlebot (using wordfence blocking) is adding singles ip's to blocking table.
       ```
   
 * [https://ibb.co/Nj2fZF6](https://ibb.co/Nj2fZF6)
 * [https://ibb.co/2SkJ80Q](https://ibb.co/2SkJ80Q)
 * thanks in advance
 *  Plugin Support [WFAdam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfadam/)
 * (@wfadam)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ips-issue/#post-14730776)
 * Sorry for the late reply!
 * Since Google can come from many different sources (IPs, Referrers, and UA’s).
   It might be easier to use Rate Limiting to block them. Just curious though, why
   did you want to block google crawlers?
 * Navigate to Wordfence > All Options > Rate Limiting [https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/rate-limiting/#treat-google-crawlers](https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/rate-limiting/#treat-google-crawlers)
 * You can disable that option to treat Google bots like all other crawlers.
 * Also, here is a link to Google about how to exclude your site from crawls.
    [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/block-indexing](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/block-indexing)
 * Hope this helps!
 * Thanks again!

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 * Last reply from: [WFAdam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfadam/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ips-issue/#post-14730776)
 * Status: resolved