Scrappers: How to block an IP address from accessing your website

[LPV]

How to: Deny access from specific domains through cPanel IP Blocker?

[Adam7]

We don't provide a way right not to block IP addresses or ISPs from visiting your site, @LPV. Are you getting spammy contact form entries?

[LPV]

Very much so. As I am learning, this is a very common problem. Which also extents to any ad campaigns in the form of bad / spammy clicks. 

As I'm sure you know: Any click on an ad, web page element, or content for the sole purpose of increasing click revenue constitutes click fraud. Most people who commit click fraud either want to sabotage their competitors by exhausting their ad budgets, or boost their own revenue by driving up the number of ad clicks on their websites. Here are some of the most common methods:

• Click farms: teams of people who can be hired to manually click on ads
• Click bots: software that that can be purchased or programmed to automate click activity
• Clickjacking: hiding invisible ads on a website or manipulating their position to cause users to click them unintentionally
• Botnets: networks of hijacked computers that generate huge numbers of clicks while registering
• as human.
• Also See: https://www.distilnetworks.com/why-distil/

[Bernadette3]

There's a couple apps in the App Center that might be worth looking into. I haven't used either one so I'm not 100% sure if this is what you are looking for.

[LPV]

Great Tip ... Thanks! I'll give it a try and let you know how it works. 

[LPV]

Also see: https://www.perimeterx.com/resources/#solution-briefs

[LPV]

Seems to be a problem with the zelixcorp.com IP Block app, google is flaging as an unsafe website. 

Uhmm

[Bernadette3]

Hm.. it looks like it's an issue with their SSL certificate. They are probably already aware and fixing it, but I can see if someone from our app team can send them a message. Thanks for pointing that out.

[LPV]

About /robots.txt In a nutshell: HERE

[Irisbrown]

I don't know it's possible to directly edit the .htaccess file but if it's possible you can easily block or allow specific IPs by using .htaccess

[Bernadette3]

Thanks for posting, @Irisbrown. Unfortunately, it is not possible to edit the htaccess file. If you are using our older editor you would have access to the App Center and I believe there's a handful of apps that would help you out.