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Stop Web Crawlers has been developed to block referrer spam attacks on your WordPress website.<\/p>\n\n

Stop Web Crawlers will reduce the likelihood that your site will be crawled by the Referrer spammers like;<\/p>\n\n

> semalt.com , Darodar.com, buttons-for-website, ilovevitaly.co, screentoolkit.com, myftpupload.com,\n> best-seo-offer.com,  Get-Free-Traffic-Now.com,  best-seo-solution.com,  4webmasters.org,  luxup.ru, \n> blackhatworth.com,  7makemoneyonline.com,  priceg.com,  prodvigator.ua, resellerclub.com,  savetubevideo.com,   \n> kambasoft.com,  socialseet.ru,  superiends.org,  vodkoved.ru,  o-o-8-o-o.ru,  iskalko.ru, websocial.me,  \n> ykecwqlixx.ru,  slftsdybbg.ru,  seoexperimenty.ru,  darodar.com,  econom.co,  edakgfvwql.ru,  adcash.com, \n> adviceforum.info,  hulfingtonpost.com,  europages.com.ru,  gobongo.info,  cenoval.ru,  cityadspix.com\n>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
In total Stop Web Crawlers protects your site from 1439 known referrer spammers.<\/p>\n\n
If these Crawlers attempt to crawl your website they sent 403 access prohibited error response<\/em><\/p>\n\n
The additional functionality planned for this plugin for the future is also to remove Ghost Referrer spammers from accessing your Google Analytics.<\/p>\n\n
There is no need to edit your .htaccess or mess around with robots.txt, all is required is too install the plugin and activate the plugin.<\/p>\n\n
The plugin is currently designed to run unattended and automatically.<\/p>\n\n
There is a settings section, but this is currently only a placeholder for future functionality, which will be activated in future releases of the plugin.<\/p>\n\n
Other bots will be added to the block list over time via updates to this plugin.<\/p>\n\n
Donations<\/h3>\n\n\n
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  1. Upload the stop-web-crawlers<\/code> folder to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n
  2. Activate the Stop Web Crawlers plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n
  3. Configure the plugin by going to the Stop Web Crawlers<\/code> menu that appears in your admin menu<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
    1.3.5<\/h4>\n\n
    Database schema improvements\nDatabase upgrade feature\nDashboard UI enhancements\nCrawler Logging feature\nEnhanced Activation\nImproved Uninstall\nImproved crawler list updates\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.3.4<\/h4>\n\n
    Added submit a feature email\nResponsive Image in Sidebar\nAlgorithm improvements to Bot detection\nUpdated product description url\nadded version number checker\nadded access to settings on plugin settings\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.3.3<\/h4>\n\n
    Removed duplicate menu label in admin menu\nFixed error to relative paths in views\nAdded Twitter follow icon on dashboard\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.3.2<\/h4>\n\n
    Improved Dashboard page\nAdded Admin CSS styles\nTidied up List Table columns\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.3.1<\/h4>\n\n
    Code clean up removing deprecated classes\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.3.0<\/h4>\n\n
    Major refactor of the code base \n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.2.2<\/h4>\n\n
    Fixed Urgent bug caused by deprecated call\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.2.1<\/h4>\n\n
    Typo fixed in readme file\nFixed error in which we were inadvertently linking to a spmmer in readme\nupdated dashboard \n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.2.0<\/h4>\n\n
    Updated the database to include over 1100 known referer spam bots\nImprove blocking\nUpdated Dashboard Text\nTested against WordPress beta 4.7\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.1.0<\/h4>\n\n
    Added Logo to Admin Dashboard Menu\nAdd New Web Crawler functionality implemented\nDashboard View Revamp\nAdditional Refactoring to improve long term support\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.6<\/h4>\n\n
    Updated license header\nImproved refactoring\nAdded minimum WordPress version check\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.5<\/h4>\n\n
    Added functionality for filter not run for logged in users or admin users\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.4<\/h4>\n\n
    Updated readme text \n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.3<\/h4>\n\n
    Fix upgrade bug and patched HTML formatting\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.2<\/h4>\n\n
    Bug fix from a source control merge issue\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
    Cosmetic changes\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n
    1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
    Initial release\n<\/code><\/pre>","raw_excerpt":"Blocks over 1400 known referer spammers from directly targeting your website.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/49585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49585"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/threenine"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=49585"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=49585"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=49585"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=49585"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=49585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}