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unusual frequent visit from facebook

by morc23
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hi! im new in making websites and one of my wordpress website is unusually visited frequently from different ip from facebook (paso alto and beverly hills location). it started 2 days ago and now my site is getting hit by it about 5 times every hour. i have the same experience 2 months ago with my other websites but it was from amazon aws so i just blocked the ip address of it.

will i loose my traffic if i blocked this ip's from facebook? cause most of them are coming from facebook. i'm planning to install Bad Behavior plugin but i read some negative things about it like blocking google bots.

has anyone experienced this? cause im suspecting this is not really from facebook.
#facebook #frequest #unsual #visit
  • Profile picture of the author JForsberg
    I've received tons of those spam posts with a Facebook link.
    Either Facebook does some bad backlinking strategy, or someone just create tons of Facebook spam accounts and for whatever reason, spam their links.

    This is how I deal with it: Akismet. Saved me a lot of time from deleting spam.
    A few of them however, got their link deleted, and post rewritten = free comment post without being obvious spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author TG12
      Why block the IP address if its not causing problems? i.e Eating up EXCESSIVE Bandwidth... Post the IP range and I will tell you who it is?
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      • Profile picture of the author morc23
        Beverly Hills, California, United States
        IP Address:Facebook (69.171.229.245)
        Referring URL (No referring link)

        This is what it looks like in statcounter log.


        ip range are
        69.171.229.245
        (69.171.229.245)
        (69.171.234.2)
        (69.171.229.250)
        (66.220.149.251)
        (69.171.224.244)
        (69.171.229.250)
        (69.171.234.1)
        (69.171.229.249)
        (69.171.234.6)
        (69.171.234.7)
        (69.171.229.250)
        (69.171.234.6)
        (69.171.234.1)
        (69.171.234.3)
        (69.171.234.7)
        (69.171.228.245)
        (66.220.149.247)
        (69.171.234.2)
        (69.171.234.3)
        (69.171.228.250)
        and more....



        i got 100+ hits of this in 3 days they are mostly from 69.171.. and 66.220..
        im only in limited bandwidth hosting plan.
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        • Profile picture of the author TG12
          Yeah its all from Facebook, Could be referrals? Which is a good thing right?
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          • Profile picture of the author JForsberg
            Originally Posted by morc23 View Post

            Beverly Hills, California, United States
            IP Address:Facebook (69.171.229.245)
            Referring URL (No referring link)

            This is what it looks like in statcounter log.


            ip range are
            69.171.229.245
            (69.171.229.245)
            (69.171.234.2)
            (69.171.229.250)
            (66.220.149.251)
            (69.171.224.244)
            (69.171.229.250)
            (69.171.234.1)
            (69.171.229.249)
            (69.171.234.6)
            (69.171.234.7)
            (69.171.229.250)
            (69.171.234.6)
            (69.171.234.1)
            (69.171.234.3)
            (69.171.234.7)
            (69.171.228.245)
            (66.220.149.247)
            (69.171.234.2)
            (69.171.234.3)
            (69.171.228.250)
            and more....



            i got 100+ hits of this in 3 days they are mostly from 69.171.. and 66.220..
            im only in limited bandwidth hosting plan.
            Originally Posted by TG12 View Post

            Yeah its all from Facebook, Could be referrals? Which is a good thing right?
            TG12 read both the red lines.
            No referral url = cannot be a referral.

            Spammer, nothing else.

            If you can, ban the first all the way through to the last IP. Not one a time, but the first and anyone in between to the last. Might gonna kill a few other visitors, but you get rid of the spammer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Earnie Boyd
    If you're getting hit several times in the same second by the same IP address then you know it is potentially a cracker up to no good. If you know the address isn't from crawler or the IP address is giving you a bunch of 404 errors then block the IP address.
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  • Profile picture of the author morc23
    Thanks. I'll just try blocking the IP's for a week and see if it stops. Im sure this not a normal crawler because before it only hits my site once a week just to store the image and description if someone shares my contents on Facebook.
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