With the Smartstore Geo-Blocker plugin you can determine, who can access your store and who can't. You have the possibility to Restrict access by country, IP address blocks or individual IP addresses.
One use case is to stop traffic caused by hackers and bots. Many store administrators then resort to blocking countries in Smartstore by IP in order to protect their site and its visitors from harm. In this blog post, we will introduce you to the various ways you can implement geoblocking on your Smartstore store. can implement.
What does geoblocking mean in Smartstore?
To begin with, let's find out a little bit about, what geoblocking in Smartstore is exactly. If you've heard the term before heard it before, it essentially means that you're blocking visitors - or traffic - from from a certain country from accessing your store.
Blocking by country is done based on IP addresses, i.e. individual identifiers for devices. Countries often have ranges of IP addresses. For example, if you want to block China, you will need this range of IP addresses.
Shop operators and administrators often see geoblocking as a Solution to a bot problem. However, each admin identifies the source of the Bot traffic depending on their own offering. There are different opinions, but you will find some recurring ones like Russia and China on Everyone's list.
How do I find out which countries or IP address blocks should be blocked in Smartstore should be blocked?
If the spammer has registered as a customer, the IP address of his last login is stored in his customer account. stored. When it comes to general calls, web server log files are a good source. Even if you only want or are allowed to operate in certain countries. Smartstore Geoblocker will serve you well.
Use Google Analytics as well
Navigate to your Google Analytics dashboard to. Sessions by Country > Location Overview to see details about your users. see. Here you can see a visual representation of your global traffic.
Google Analytics only shows where the traffic is coming from, but it not the type of traffic you receive. Based on the content of your offer and your audience profile, you can determine if traffic from one Country is hurting your store.
How do I block country IP addresses from accessing my store?
There are two ways to implement geoblocking for your store. implement: manually or with the Smartstore GeoBlocker plugin. The manual Method is tedious and time-consuming. We strongly recommend you to use the plugin method to block country IP addresses for your Smartstore store. block.
The Smartstore GeoBlocker plugin allows you to block the IP addresses of countries with just a few clicks directly from your Smartstore dashboard. Block. The big advantage at this point is that you can access the other diagnostic tools, such as login and traffic logs, in order to determine which countries need to be blocked.
When a connection is denied, the visitor is redirected to. 404 (page not found) redirect. IP addresses are weighted higher by the system weighted than countries. This means that an allowed IP from a blocked country can connect, but a blocked IP from a allowed country cannot. allowed country will not.
What does the Smartstore GeoBlocker plugin offer you in terms of. other features?
- Decide between opt-in or opt-out as a method .
- Trust already registered users without further verification .
- Select restricted/allowed countries from the dropdown list .
- Define IPv4 address ranges with wildcard placeholders .
- Use '*' for any number '?' for a number or number ranges (1-255) to define IPv4 blocks .
Note: In the European Union (EU), as of 3. December 2018, the geoblocking regulation came into force. Read a blog post by trustedshops.co.uk on the topic of geoblocking.
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