: Am I doing .htaccess right to block google, bing and alexa bots? I do not need bots at all. I bought my traffic and I do not want my sites to show up on search engine or anything. So

@Annie201

I may be somewhat overboard with my regex part, but these lines in your apache configuration will block them. Basically it scans the entire user agent identification string to see if it contains "googlebot", "bingbot" or "alexa" and if it does then direct users to the default error 403 page

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)googlebot(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)bingbot(.*)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.*)alexa(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]


And if you want to set a custom error 403 page, use this line:

ErrorDocument 403 /path/to/errordocument.htm

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