Posted: 13 August 2011 at 6:40pm | IP Logged

Hi Again!

Anyone have any idea why the following would block google search results links?  I thought that it should just pass through if google was not one of the key words, but it is blocking search results links and returning a 404. 

RewriteCond Referer: .*(?:keywords|go|here).*
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [I,F]

Posted: 15 August 2011 at 11:31am | IP Logged

Hi Anton,

Thanks for getting back to me.  As I mentioned in the later post -

RewriteCond Referer: .*(?:keywords|go|here).*
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [I,F]

The problem is the above code blocks google search link results as well.  I’m not sure if it is because one of the words, such as “keywords” may appear in the google search string or what, but as I soon as I remove the rule, the search link works again.

Are you saying that changing the RewriteRule to

RewriteRule (.*) /custom404.asp [I,L]

will correct the google problem?