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#28357 Admin Tools blocks Google Bot and Google Adwords

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Latest post by dlb on Friday, 01 September 2017 23:18 CDT

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admin tools blocked the website scan of google webmaster tools and google adwords.

I activated the "allow site templates" option in waf configuration, but this does not solve the problem. There are no entries in the Security Exceptions Log, no enties in Auto IP Blocking History, no entries in Site IP Blacklist.

But google is stil not able to scan my site.

That is really worse because it has a highly impact of the business of my site.
So I have to deactivate the admin tools ensuring my site is found by customers using google search.

This is a really criterium for exclusion using akeeba site admin, because there is absolutely no sense in a secure site which could not found by the custoemrs?!

So I deactivated the admin tools and I am waiting for a configuration that allows google to scan the page.

Best regards

Markus

dlb
Markus,

If nobody can find you, your site is certainly secure! :-)

It could be a couple of things. Did you use GeoIP block to block the USA? That will block Google's servers.


Dale L. Brackin
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Dear Dale,

that was a helpful hint, I think that was the reason.
Geo Blocked access is not listed in the waf logs?

Best regards

Markus

dlb
Markus,

No, the GeoIP blocks are excluded from the logs.


Dale L. Brackin
Support Specialist


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