Re:Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service an...
by cmeacham98 on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:55AM
(#26112323)
How about automatically honeypotting them? Add some code to your site that will IP ban a user that searches for some random string (and when I say random, I mean literally generate a random string - something no legit user would search for).
Then, setup a script on your laptop or whatever to search this string on their domains every half hour or so.
Re:Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service an...
by santah on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:10AM
(#26112411)
It's basically what I've done, though have not automated it yet.
It even prepares the expression snippet for me to paste directly into a CloudFlare firewall rule.
That's how I got to quickly identify and ban almost 2000 different IPs.
If they continue to expand the IP pool I may need to automate it though.
Problem is - right now I'm over 250 (new) IPs and they keep piling up (their domains now rarely use an IP more than once).
I may have to block entire ranges of IPs or whole ASNs.