How Do You Stop Fucking Baido Indexing Sites?..

[EddyTheDog]

It ignores robots.txt - Anyone know what IPs it uses?....

[Magnetron]

What do you have against Scott Baio?

[WDF]

Don't you like all that CN traffic?

[freecartoonporn]

here it is .

Stop Baidu crawler

[brassmonkey]

fucking racist!!

[bean-aid]

Just have host blacklist china traffic.

[ErectMedia]

robots.txt is like asking your neighbor to keep his dog off your lawn, htaccess is like installing an electric fence

[rowan]

Just have host blacklist china traffic.

Make sure they have clue before they do that, and don't end up blacklisting all of Asia Pacific.

My own solution to the problem is to firewall any IP that presents a Baidu user-agent.

[fuzebox]

I would never turn down free traffic. If you don't want china leeching your resources, redirect it somewhere useful

[rowan]

I would never turn down free traffic. If you don't want china leeching your resources, redirect it somewhere useful

Dunno about the OP but I'm assuming that he's in the same boat as I am - the issue is that the Baidu web spider trawls over the whole site, but never actually sends any (or very little) human traffic.

If your site has a decent number of pages and/or it is dynamically generated then Baidu really is just wasting resources.

[Phoenix]

i might be interested in taking all chinese traffic.

[FlowerKid]

If baidu spider teaffic is relevant for your server performance, maybe it's time to upgrade.

[hdbuilder]

Just put this in your htaccess file in the root of each domain:

# Block bad spiders
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sosospider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baiduspider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sogou
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

You can add as many as you want , make sure the lines ends with [NC,OR] and with nothing for the last one

Using it for years and been tested ...

[EddyTheDog]

Just put this in your htaccess file in the root of each domain:

# Block bad spiders
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sosospider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baiduspider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sogou
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

You can add as many as you want , make sure the lines ends with [NC,OR] and with nothing for the last one

Using it for years and been tested ...

Thanks - That looks like it will do the trick...

The main reason is that it inflates my traffic to sponsors so much its hard to see what the real conversions are - If you are as into stats as me it is a real pain in the ass...

I am moving towards using GeoIp scripts and sorting traffic that way but it takes time.....