can someone help me with blocking hitbots?
 

i know you can do it with htaccess but i need someone to explain it to me please...any help?

can't somebody shed some light on this issue?

got no idea but here is a bump for ya

you need to cut the red wire...

block the refering url in htaccess?

contact your host

embed a few of invisible links on your page. like same background color and tiny
font size. make a small script that blocks all the IP´s by adding them to iptables
or alternatively to .htaccess as those are hitbot clicks. Humans would not click
these hidden links.

:2 cents:

my whole question here is how do i setup the htaccess to block them? i don't understand the process...

Ok well that goes like this:

order allow,deny
deny from 123.45.6.7
deny from 012.34.5.
allow from all

or

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from hitbot.com
deny from 123.456.789
deny from 012.345.*
allow from all
</LIMIT>

i still have no clue how to set it up...

Just copy/paste the content into a .htaccess file in the webroot directory

Make sure httpd.conf if setup to use .htaccess look for AllowOverRide
and if it's not already set to AllowOverRide All change it to that.
restart apache and it works :thumbsup