Just installed plugin and can confirm that SERP url redirects successful.
All good for google and bing.
Will keep an eye to see if the site remains indexed. The plugin is activated on a seasoned splog that has been indexed since 2020
so you’re using it for cloaking SERP traffic, correct?
which conditions did you use? just UA? IP from list?
Yes SERP traffic.
Just used “URL in list” condition with mysite.com/* and action “Redirect to URL” which redirects to CPVlab tracking URL.
Should I be using other conditions?
if you’re only checking for the URL, it means everyone will get redirected. including googlebot and bingbot.
thus yes, you would want to change the conditions.
at the very least use UA in list: google
negative match
then redirect
so that visitors with google (and thus also googlebot) won’t get redirected.
ideally you’d also want to add google’s IPs.
i should probably make a seperate pre-made condition just for google, which checks the UA, IP and maybe other stuff as well
OK thanks.
I have deleted the “URL in list” condition and replaced it with “UA in list”: google bing duckduckgo.
All redirects are working
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I’ve now added the following bot IP’s in a IP list condition with a negative match.
66.249.77.*
193.201.224.*
77.88.5.*
52.167.144.*
207.46.13.*
20.185.79.*
54.208.100.*
40.77.167.*
93.158.161.*
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Having gone thru my CPVlab logs I noticed some more bot traffic that is being redirected. Looks like semrush and a couple of others.
So I have added the following to the IP List:
85.208.98.*
216.244.66.*
223.93.149.*
Also noticed traffic from China getting thru so added CH to:
Country in List >> Negative Match