# This is why you don't accidentally ban Google's Search Bots!

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-why-you-dont-accidentally-ban-googles-search-bots/331944
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**Created:** [December 4, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-why-you-dont-accidentally-ban-googles-search-bots/331944 "2013-12-04T23:16:37Z")
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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-why-you-dont-accidentally-ban-googles-search-bots/331944/1 "2013-12-04T23:16:37Z")

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As part of my recent **War Against Spammers and DDoS’ers** , I accidentally ended up banning IPs that ended up belonging to Google’s SearchBots. Yes, this was such a noob thing to do. I just fixed it, so in a few days, [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) will actually show up in Google search results :alien2: