Bot traffic issues
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Hello, I’m Priyanka. My website is: bakeddates.com
For a few months and till now, there has been unwanted traffic coming to my website very much that I am not targeted anymore.
This traffic is coming from China, Singapore, India, Australia, Vietnam etc on one specific blog post and home page, with many other posts on my website showing on analytics.
And that post is going 100% bounce rate. For those bot traffic, I connected with Cloudflare and enabled bot protection mode, but till now those bot traffic is coming continuously.
What should I do now to stop this? Can WordPress suggest or block countries or IP addresses? Or anything else, please let me know.
I am so worried and frustrated because for this reason my Pinterest account is suspended and website too. Please help!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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When you hit “Update” in WordPress and the changes don’t appear on your live site, the problem is almost always caused by caching, which is essentially your browser or the server showing you a “saved” snapshot of the old page to save time. Since you are on a WordPress.com site, the most common culprit is your browser cache; you can test this instantly by opening your website in an Incognito or Private window. If your changes appear there, you simply need to perform a “Hard Refresh” on your regular browser (press Ctrl + F5 on Windows or Cmd + Shift + R on a Mac) to force it to grab the new version. If that doesn’t work, ensure you haven’t accidentally saved the page as a “Draft” or a “Private” post, which would keep the updates hidden from the public even if you see them while logged in.
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Priyanka, it is completely understandable why you are frustrated; having your hard work on bakeddates.com targeted by bot networks is exhausting, especially when it impacts your Pinterest and site reputation. Since basic Bot Fight Mode isn’t stopping them, you need to transition to Cloudflare WAF (Web Application Firewall) Rules to create a stricter barrier. By navigating to Security > WAF in your Cloudflare dashboard, you can create a custom rule that “Challenges” or “Blocks” any visitor from the specific countries you mentioned (China, Singapore, India, etc.) who attempts to access your homepage or that specific high-traffic blog post. This forces the suspicious traffic to pass a “Managed Challenge” (a background security check) that most bots cannot bypass, effectively dropping your bounce rate. Additionally, I recommend installing the “Blackhole for Bad Bots” plugin on your WordPress site; it works by placing a hidden link that only bots follow—once they “fall” into this trap, they are automatically blocked from your server permanently.
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