Title: Hide googlebots
Last modified: December 5, 2019

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# Hide googlebots

 *  [Justan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justan/)
 * (@justan)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-googlebots/)
 * Hello,
 * I just started using the WP Stats program. It is a nice stat package and i like
   that the information is kept on the web site.
 * One of the things I noticed is that there are a lot of google bots on my web 
   page. They usually have an ip address that begins with 66.249.x.x. I have no 
   problem with them being there. The web site is new and it’s use and the amount
   of indexed content that appears on the web is growing, all due to the google 
   bots.
 * But….is there some way to hide them from the display? I tried something I thought
   would work but it didn’t So rather than playing a guessing game, can you help
   me out? I’m sure others would like to know how to do this, if it’s possible.
 * Many thanks in advance!

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 *  [Mehrshad Darzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mehrshaddarzi/)
 * (@mehrshaddarzi)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-googlebots/#post-12209309)
 * Hi [@justan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justan/)
    you can add range 
   of your IP [66.249.x.x] in exclusion Setting.
 *  Thread Starter [Justan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justan/)
 * (@justan)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-googlebots/#post-12224212)
 * ^^Thank you for the reply. I guess i’m expressing the range incorrectly,
 * According to the details under the settings>Exclusions>Excluded IP address list:
   the syntax is
    ” For IPv4 addresses, both 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
   formats are accepted. ”
 * so put in 66.249.0.0/24
 * Hit update and the bot still show under Statistics>Recent Visitors.
 * Where am i messing up?

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 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Justan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justan/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-googlebots/#post-12224212)
 * Status: not resolved