Should I block Ukraine, China and Russian Federation for better SEO?
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My statistics show that a large percentage of hits to my site are from Ukraine, China and the Russian Federation. Now I know for a fact that most of my demographic is from the US with a bit of Western Europe thrown in. So obviously these are spam bots. Also I have many linked pages with the .ru extension that are spammy. Should I block Ukraine, China and the Russian Federation in my htaccess? I would think bounce rate is very high with spam bots so would that improve my SEO? Then of course there is the extremely annoying buttons-for-website.com and semalt-semalt.com!
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with regards to rankings? nothing but if you do entertain leads from these countries so they might not be able to access your site.
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Moosa,
Can you talk about the risks of doing this? The downside?
Thanks.
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Blocking them will not only help you decrease your bounce rate but less chances of getting your website hacked.
Hope this helps!
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