Baidu Spider Spam
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Baidu Spider hits my UK site every 5 minutes of every day for the past 2 years.
It has no consideration whether a domain exists or not.
I know this because looking at etc/httpd/logs/error_log, i am getting every 5 minutes hits from Baidu spider trying to access a domain which points to my server which no longer exists.
Given that I have absolutely no trade with China, and given that the only spam comments I get on my wordpress blog originate from China, do you think it's a good idea to either do a China country block in my .HTACCESS or block out Baidu spider?
Baidu is consuming bandwidth and is clogging my error_logs!!!
Why is it that Google, Bing, Yahoo etc... can all crawl my site nicely, but Baidu just abuses?
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Hi, ive tried cloudflare before.
Problem is that i am using SSL for some of my pages, so Cloudflare doesn't play nice unless I pay them.
Also, I am using amazon cdn - does that work with cloudflare or is it a bit ott?
I will take a look at your links and thanks!
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I just remembered another tool that you can easily add to your site and simply block the bots by implementing to not trust this hostname or IP
in fact with cloud flare can block anything looking for that old domain
Is a free service and very good DNS I would utilize it if you must.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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the complete block is here
Required robots.txt code:
Baidu (CN)
Info: http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htmRequired robots.txt code:
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites
http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/382923-baiduspider-using-multiple-user-agents-how-to-stop-them/
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?It should respect the robots so may be some one pretending to be Baidu I would try HTACCESS if you're not looking to go near China etc.
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make sure you're not running an odd plug-in that maybe causing a caching issue I know it sounds strange but I've heard of this before and it was because of an all-in-one event calendar plug in.
If it's not something like that I definitely agree with what Chris's said Good call on that Chris.
however if there is no domain you will have to implement the robots.txt on whatever your server is currently running.
If you want a free tool that will allow you to create a solid block here's one below however Chris has done a great job of creating one.
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/
sincerely,
Thomas
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User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider+
Disallow: /Baidu spider is blocked, but it doesn't seem to care!
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Have you tried blocking it in robots ?
#Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
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