A Google Groups thread has a webmaster who has been receiving a lot of rogue spider attacks from the Africa region. He wants to go as far as ban the whole continent of Africa. But he is concerned that by doing so, he will also hurt his Google rankings.
It is actually not all that uncommon for network administrators to block specific regions of web traffic. In fact, I believe my office blocks the Asia and Africa regions from entering our network (not this site, but my office network). We pretty much banned that whole region, because we have no reason to allow those regions in (in most cases, but things have come up).
Would blocking the whole Africa hurt this guys search rankings in Google?
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