From Jim Stone:
CENSORSHIP WARNING: THE NEXT LEVEL, YOU MUST BLOCK THE GOOGLE BOT FROM VIEWING YOUR WEB SITE NOW
Google has become part of an integrated system which sniffs all content off "banned" sites and then prevents that content from being sent in e-mails, even without links.
This means that if anyone copies anything off your site and tries to send it, it will get deleted from whatever message you send, or go entirely into a spam filter.
This means that if anyone copies anything off your site and tries to send it, it will get deleted from whatever message you send, or go entirely into a spam filter.**
YOU MUST BLOCK GOOGLE ...to stop it from getting any data from your site, anything Google gets will go directly into the internet trash bin when people try to repeat it, even when it is kept completely outside the realm of Google.
Forget the norobots command, Google does not respect anything anymore. It will just pretend to not be a robot and will go in anyway.
To block Google for real, take this data and drop it into your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
Files 403.shtml> the beginning of this line needs a bracket (it will not
post here with it in place)
order allow,deny
allow from all
/Files>// --> You must put the bracket at the beginning of this line also
deny from 64.233.160.0/191.255
deny from 66.102.0.0/15.255
deny from 66.249.64.0/95.255
deny from 72.14.192.0/255.255
deny from 74.125.0.0/255.255
deny from 209.85.128.0/255.255
deny from 216.239.32.0/63.255
deny from 64.18.0.0/15.255
deny from 108.177.8.0/15.255
deny from 172.217.0.0/31.255
deny from 173.194.0.0/255.255
deny from 207.126.144.0/159.255
deny from 216.58.192.0/223.255
deny from 64.68.90.1/255
deny from 64.233.173.193/255
deny from 66.249.64.1/79.255
deny from 216.239.33.96/59.128
deny from 2001:4860:4000:0:0:0:0:0/4fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
deny from 2404:6800:4000:0:0:0:0:0/4fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
deny from 2607:f8b0:4000:0:0:0:0:0/4fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
deny from 2800:3f0:4000:0:0:0:0:0/4fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
deny from 2a00:1450:4000:0:0:0:0:0/4fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
deny from 2c0f:fb50:4000:0:0:0:0:0/4fff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
If you can still see the Googlebot in your stats, you have to extract the IP addresses it used and then ban them the same way. This ought to be a really good start.
If Google won't post your content anyway, why on earth would you allow them to index the content of your site and then put it in spam filters ALL PLATFORMS USE? You'll never spread a message!
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