Spam search queries

  • Resolved extractlabs

    (@extractlabs)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    In the past few months we have started to receive thousands upon thousands of Spam searches using your plugin from some of our less reputable competitors. I would normally have no idea this is happening, but our SEO plugin RankMath includes search queries in Sitemaps and we now see 50k+ spam search queries a month as trying to index.

    Long story short, is there any sort of recaptcha integration that works with your plugin or some other method I can use to limit bot queries at the plugin level? Or is this something I need to create a server firewall rules for?

    Thank you!

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    • This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Jan Dembowski.

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  • Plugin Author YummyWP

    (@yummy-wp)

    Hi there,

    Sorry for the late reply.
    The issue is that bot makes HTTP requests so Recaptcha is useless in this case.
    Adding a some checks in the plugin code also is not effective because each time a bot make a non cached request the server will run a WordPress core and all the functionality that will hit your database.

    The best solution is to block bots in the server firewall rules.
    You can limit access to your website for the specific IP’s. Maybe you can limit access by checking “Referer” in the request. Please check cloudflare firewall documentation.

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