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Google flagged my server IP as a bot

by sam808
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I must have an SEO plugin on my server that queried google too much. I am still trying to narrow that down.

I found out about the problem when one of my SEO plugins stopped displaying competition stats. My server is Redhat at Rackspace and there's no gui OS installed on it so I confirmed my server is on a bot list by using Lynx, the text browser.

My problem is that I can't fill out the captcha without a gui browser. Does anyone know of a plugin that will solve the google captcha on my server? I have an account at deathbycaptcha if that helps.

thanks for any tips you can offer!
Sam
#bot #flagged #google #server
  • Profile picture of the author Earnie Boyd
    The problem with most captcha is that it displays in graphics form to prevent bots from scraping the text and applying it to the input form. Usually there is a link to speak the text but I've never been able to understand the generated voice to be able to input the spoken letters.

    As I understand your problem Google is being queried by something like cURL with filled in POST data and Google isn't happy thinking you may be a bot searching for the content. These pop up occasionally for me as well regardless that I'm using a browser on a laptop. Getting around the captcha isn't going to happen in a program, that is the purpose of captcha.

    You should get your rank but going to Google directly and entering in your search terms yourself. You will not get past the captcha otherwise.
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  • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
    Originally Posted by sam808 View Post

    My problem is that I can't fill out the captcha without a gui browser. Does anyone know of a plugin that will solve the google captcha on my server? I have an account at deathbycaptcha if that helps.
    I would simply use SSH tunneling to use the server as a proxy for my web browser at home. Then the captcha could be solved using the server's IP address.
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    • Profile picture of the author Stuart Macfarlane
      Google don't flag you as a bot per say but they rate limit you if you hit them witih too many requests.

      Have you tried disabling your Plugin for 24-48 hours (approx) and then testing again using Lynx to see if the temp block has been removed?

      I've never know this block to last longer then 7days on any software or server.

      If this plugin uses the Google API then you are currently limited to around 7000 queries per day per unique IP.

      Kind Regards,
      Stuart Macfarlane
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