How to prevent wordpress search spam??

[Enlightened Orangutan]

Spammers are hitting search bar on my site with long string of texts containg their domain address. The thing is google picked it and now showing these search results on search console index report. Even though there is noindex tag, google bot is still following this search url strings.

I think these guys are trying to force index search query pages.

How you guys are dealing with wordpress search spam? At the bare minimum its affecting crawl budget!!

Can you guys suggest me a cloudflare firewall rule to prevent this from happening?? Like blocking search queries with domain url

Plz.. spare some time...

 

[Deleted member 752298]

Create a rule on CloudFlare that restrict access or check any parameter for example ?=S

 

[Takdeer Pias]

Modify the access option in cloudflare. You will find videos on YT

 

[Enlightened Orangutan]

But '?s=' not working in firewall rules..How can I get around this??

Create a rule on CloudFlare that restrict access or check any parameter for example ?=S

Modify the access option in cloudflare. You will find videos on YT

 

[raksmart]

I think the easiest and effective solution is to disable your search on your wordpress website, by doing this, the spammer can't conduct any operation, it is good for your website.
It seems funny.
Actually here I would suggest that you add a NOINDEX rule to your robot.txt file, and tell Google you don't like it to index your link category such as http://www.xxx.com/?s="keywords", hope it works for you.

 

[Enlightened Orangutan]

Noindex tag is already there.

 

[ahmed munawar]

Spammers are hitting search bar on my site with long string of texts containg their domain address. The thing is google picked it and now showing these search results on search console index report. Even though there is noindex tag, google bot is still following this search url strings.

I think these guys are trying to force index search query pages.

How you guys are dealing with wordpress search spam? At the bare minimum its affecting crawl budget!!

Can you guys suggest me a cloudflare firewall rule to prevent this from happening?? Like blocking search queries with domain url

Plz.. spare some time...

WordPress search spam can be a frustrating and time-consuming problem to deal with.