Hi,
The last month or so, a see more than 100+ visits from several ips with this user agent
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; + https://bot.seekport.com)
I have blocked them via the robots.txt but it doesn't seem to work.
I read a lot of blog posts about bad bots, can you help?
Thank you
Hello.
seekport bot is bought from some SEO company and it is not what it was back before 2008.
You post this in Wordpress forum, so i guess you run a Wordpress site. So install Wordfence and use the Custom Blocks to ban "user agent" containing that user agent (or any other you do not want).
Do not use Wordfence IPs block because they have a lot of different Ips, that also seem to change often.
Before doing all that, put this to your robots.txt
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /
and wait a week. If still they visit your site, ban them.
Thank you both. The issue is that i have added the Disallow 10 days back but that seems not to be respected.
As for Wordfence, i have some other security plugin that doesn't have that ability. I will have to ask our support guy to move to Wordfence and see if it is better than now.