Only allow access to sitemap for googlebot?

WeWontBeAlone

Regular Member

Jan 13, 2016

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• Sep 8, 2017

• #1

basically, I have a competitor who is using my sitemap to report all my URLs to google, how can I hide my sitemap for everyone and every bot EXCEPT for google (so it can index my urls)

 

xjapan

Power Member

Sep 16, 2014

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• Sep 8, 2017

• #2

try this code in your htaccess

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(google) [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

 

Osman_Augustus

Newbie

Mar 1, 2017

46

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• Sep 8, 2017

• #3

xjapan said:

try this code in your htaccess

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(google) [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

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This works for me