That isn't an issue with this modification as it doesn't use glowhostspamomatic. You also have a blank in your list, this could effectively ban everyone and everything!!

Add this to your config under <?php:

I have a dumb question. I'm up on running a forum and such, but not on SEO and what these spiders and bots are actually doing. Since installing this product, I continually notice that the blocked spiders number keeps going up...at an alarming rate. First it was a few hundred, then it was a thousand, and now its about 8100 blocked spiders at a given moment. That was about 3-4 weeks ago. What's going on? Is this something along the lines of, "block them and they will come?" I fear the day that this plug in gets disabled by accident or whatever because the floodgates might come bursting open.

Which bots are showing as increasing in numbers? it's more than likely the same bot that keeps changing IP address, don't worry it will settle down.

I just wanted to thank you for this. My site had slowed to a crawl with page load times of 15 seconds and I did not know why. I installed this and my page loads are now mostly under a second.

I had no idea these bots and spiders were doing this to me..after a week I see this.

Spiders/Bots Activity Blocked From Site: 102,285

Thanks again, much appreciated.

I suspect that you have some other process issues that are affecting load times but I'm glad this has helped.

Do take a look at your images that your site has, try to use a CDN to deliver them or maybe create a sprite to contain them all and deliver the images from sprite coordinates, also look at which scripts are called on page load, sometimes its best to try and minimize these and minify your JS scripts, this might help https://hostway.com/blog/10-ways-to-...e-load-faster/

Its a bit of work but well worth the effort.

I also have been using this product for over year and initially it wiped 90% of the traffic, as they were bots but over time the number has gone back up again.

I would assume what we need is a new list of bots?

Have had a search around but cant find one???

I am using this updated list as per a few posts back:

I just installed this on 4.2.5, and as soon as I have it installed, this is showing up on the left upper side of my header where the logo is.

Could anyone tell me if that can be fixed, and if, how ?

Thanks in advance.

Wolf

Seems to work fine for me on VBulletin 4.2.5 so the error above in @WOLF-G4MIN-X's post must be the Glowhost Spamomatic mod incompatibility mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

I havent seen this before and it doesn't use the bootstrap, This loads at every page call which prevents the spiders actually loading a page, so it could be a third party hack that doesn't like it being loaded, you could change the load order in the products page of admincp, normally most hacks are set at 5.