[ghassanmas]

What about the blocking google bot by their IPs, also combined with user-agent wouldn't that stop the crawlers

Google crawlers IPs https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-the-ip-address-of-google-81...

[benatkin]

That will stop the crawlers but you could still show up in the search results, because of other web pages. From GP:

> If other pages point to your page with descriptive text, Google could still index the URL without visiting the page