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  msimms2014 · Member · Jan 27, 2026 at 9:54 pm

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  My website is being scraped. How do I prevent this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staartmees · Member · Jan 28, 2026 at 7:29 am

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  we don’t have a way to prevent such bots from crawling/scraping content from WordPress.com sites. You can use plugins or a robots.txt to ask search engines not to crawl or scrape your site, but that’s only a request not an obligation.

  The best solution to prevent crawling and scraping is by setting your site to private.

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  msimms2014 · Member · Jan 28, 2026 at 7:55 am

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  Thanks for the response.