I have Bad Behavior installed on a client’s site. It appears to me, though, that this extension is blocking access from Google’s GoogleBot (oh no!)
Using this SEO tool, I see that if I access the site with a User-Agent of Mozilla, I get the site responding fine with a 200. But if I access it as a Google Bot, Bad Behavior kicks me back with a 403 error:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers/
Mozilla:
Requesting: http://www.moviemaker.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept:*|*
Host: www.moviemaker.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)
Server Response: 200 OK
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:49:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2
Set-Cookie: bb2_screener_=1193698156+216.154.235.143; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_last_visit=878352556; expires=Tue, 28-Oct-2008 22:49:16 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_last_activity=1193712556; expires=Tue, 28-Oct-2008 22:49:16 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_tracker=a:1:{i:0;s:5:"index";}; path=/
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:49:17 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 6196
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
Googlebot:
Requesting: http://www.moviemaker.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept:*|*
Host: www.moviemaker.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Server Response: 403 Bad Behavior
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:48:59 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2
Status: 403 Bad Behavior
Content-Length: 886
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
I’m running EE 1.6.0 Build: 20070918 and Bad Behavior 2 Extension (v.2.0.0) with Bad Behavior 2.0.10.
I’ve disabled it on my site, and I encourage others to check out and see if Bad Behavior blocks Google from visiting your site…
TTFN
Travis
