How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
When you block by IP address, you may end up blocking an entire internet provider, and thus a lot of realusers and potential customers. Likewise, many bad bots intentionally use User Agent names that correspond to normal web browsers. In addition, I simply made up the name "bad_bot" for the purpose of this article.
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