SEO Scan shows errors with IP Geo Block Active

Hi John,

Do you mean https://www.link-assistant.com/website-auditor/ ?

I guess it would scan your web site from their server, right?

If so, you can put their server’s IP address into “Whitelist of extra IP addresses prior to country code” in “Validation rule settings” section, and disable “Prevent Zero-day Exploit” in “Admin ajax/post” section.

I don’t think google scans report these errors as I check google search console regularly and haven’t seen any problems.

That’s right because google never login to your site.

Please consider to exclude admin pages to be scanned, because it’s almost similar to attack from outside your site by some tools. I have no experience with SEO Powersuite auditor, so I have no idea you can do it or not.

But I don’t understand why you allow their server to access your logged in area. Those area doesn’t need SEO but only need page speed optimization. And I think admin page optimization is difficult task because of many CSS and JavaScript.

I appreciate your understanding.
Thanks.

Hi John,

Additional info.

Please try followings:

1. Find “drop-in-sample.php” in the folder “ip-geo-block/wp-content/ip-geo-api/” of this plugin’s package.
2. Add the following code snippet at the bottom of the file in order to allow some IP addresses to access your site using the appropriate text editor.

   function my_whitelist( $validate ) {
       $whitelist = array(
           '123.234.246.', /* replace this line to the appropriate IP address */
       );
   
       foreach ( $blacklist as $ip ) {
           if ( strpos( $ip, $validate['ip'] ) === 0 ) {
               $validate['result'] = 'passed'; /* force to pass */
               break;
           }
       }
   
       return $validate;
   }
   add_filter( 'ip-geo-block-admin', 'my_whitelist' );

3. Upload the above file into the Geolocation API library folder in your server using FTP. The folder may be “/wp-content/ip-geo-api/” or “/wp-content/uploads/ip-geo-api/”.

The above code snippet is different from “Whitelist of extra IP addresses prior to country code“. It has the highest priority which means you can enable “Prevent Zero-day Exploit”.

Please refer to the document of custom filter “ip-geo-block-xxxxx“.

Have a happy new year!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by tokkonopapa.