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#32684 Lifting restrictions from bots for Google SEO

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Latest post by on Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:17 CDT

Thursday, 19 March 2020 00:07 CDT

webooster
Hi.

I think AdminTools might have blocked Google bots from crawling my sitemaps. Is there a way to prevent that? I do not know what IP addresses they come from, so they might be automatically blocked.

Thank you.

Regards,
Irwin

Thursday, 19 March 2020 05:25 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

this is already happening: in the Configure WAF page, Exceptions tab, there is a field name Whitelisted domains.
You should have the following domains included: .googlebot.com,.search.msn.com. Admin Tools will do a reverse DNS lookup to check if the IP belongs to one of the listed domains, if so they won't be blocked.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:17 CDT

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Edited by on 2020-04-18 17:17 CDT

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