User-Agent: * Allow: / # AVOID SPAM AND AVOID BEING PLAGIARIZED!!! # NO GOOD BOTS !!! Needs to be blocked !!! # ahrefs.com # http://ahrefs.com/robot IP 173.199.115.163 - 173.199.115.163.choopa.net - WARNING !!! # Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/4.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) # One of the worst bots on the net!!! Ahrefs.com take advantage of YOU, and you get absolutely NOTHING in return. # Ahrefs slows down your site and make you loose visitors !!! # Since ahrefs.com don't care about your robots.txt for all of their bots you need to block the whole IP-range (in .htaccess); # Ahrefs.com Network Range: IP 173.199.64.0 - 173.199.127.255. CIDR: 173.199.64.0/18 # See Bots vs Browswers user-agent: AhrefsBot disallow: / # SEOPROFILER.COM # IP 107.21.197.234 (ec2-107-21-197-234.compute-1.amazonaws.com) # Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/3.0; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot ) # Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; spbot/3.1; +http://www.seoprofiler.com/bot ) # IP-adresses starts with; # 23.20.*.* # 23.21.*.* # 23.22.*.* # 23.23.*.* # 50.16.*.* # 50.17.*.* # 50.19.*.* # 54.242.*.* # 67.202.*.* # 72.44.*.* # 75.101.*.* # 107.20.*.* # 107.21.*.* # 107.22.*.* # 174.129.*.* # 184.72.*.* # 184.73.*.* # 204.236.*.* User-agent: spbot Disallow: / # ezooms.com - One of the absolute must to block in every way you can from spying on you !!! # IP 208.115.113.82 Ezooms.com Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com) # Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com) # 208.115.111.66 208.115.111.67 208.115.111.68 208.115.111.70 208.115.111.71 208.115.111.74 208.115.111.75 # IP-range: 208.115.96.0 - 208.115.127.255 (they don't give out bot name!). The CIDR is 208.115.111.64/28 # wowrack dot com says that ezooms.com IP belongs to one of their clients; dotnetdotcom.org and that their main purpose for this machine is to crawl/index the content just like google bot. # The spider from ezooms.com visits robots.txt frequently but ignore the rules written in robots.txt. # Therefore the only way to stop this secret spider is to block the IP-range. # One of the theories is that the spider belongs to http://www.seomoz.org/ (anagram for ezooms) who tries to hide their bot in this way. # The email they give out is fake, just as their web site obviously is !!! # Ezooms is a parasite and they are definitely up to no good !!! User-agent: ezooms Disallow: / # sistrix (IP 5.9.112.64 - 5.9.112.95) User-agent: sistrix Disallow: / # Yandex bot - A rule breaker, just as Baidu spiders User-agent: Yandex Disallow: / # proximic.com/info/spider.php User-agent: proximic Disallow: /php/ # Amazonaws.com - watch out for all IP's coming from amazonasws.com. There are hundreds and hundreds of bad bots! Block everything coming from this part of the Internet !!! AWS is a myriad of site scrapers or bad bots (eg dozens of twitter/facebook me-too bots) that have no obvious use and no definite IP to block. # All IP's from AWS; # 216.182.224.0/20 (216.182.224.0 - 216.182.239.255) # 72.44.32.0/19 (72.44.32.0 - 72.44.63.255) # 67.202.0.0/18 (67.202.0.0 - 67.202.63.255) # 75.101.128.0/17 (75.101.128.0 - 75.101.255.255) # 174.129.0.0/16 (174.129.0.0 - 174.129.255.255) # 204.236.192.0/18 (204.236.192.0 - 204.236.255.255) [previously 204.236.224.0/19] # # US West (Northern California): # 204.236.128.0/18 (216.236.128.0 - 216.236.191.255) # # EU (Ireland): # 79.125.0.0/17 (79.125.0.0 - 79.125.127.255) # In .htaccess write; # Deny from 216.182.224.0/20 # Deny from 72.44.32.0/19 # Deny from 67.202.0.0/18 # Deny from 75.101.128.0/17 # Deny from 174.129.0.0/16 # Deny from 204.236.192.0/18 # Deny from 79.125.0.0/17 # Deny from 184.72.0.0/18 # Deny from 184.73.0.0/16 # Deny from 175.41.128.0/18 # Deny from 184.72.128.0/17 # Deny from 204.236.128.0/18 # Deny from 184.72.64.0/18 (184.72.64.0 - 184.72.127.255) # Deny from 50.16.0.0/15 (50.16.0.0 - 50.17.255.255) # Deny from 50.19.0.0/16 (50.19.0.0 - 50.19.255.255) # Deny from 50.18.0.0/17 (50.18.0.0 - 50.18.127.255) # Deny from 46.51.128.0/18 (46.51.128.0 - 46.51.191.255) # Deny from 46.51.192.0/20 (46.51.192.0 - 46.51.207.255) # Deny from 46.137.0.0/17 (46.137.0.0 - 46.137.127.255) # Deny from 175.41.128.0/18 (175.41.128.0 - 175.41.191.255) # Deny from 122.248.192.0/18 (122.248.192.0 - 122.248.255.255) # Deny from 175.41.192.0/18 (175.41.192.0 - 175.41.255.255) # Deny from 46.51.224.0/19 (46.51.224.0 - 46.51.255.254)