Originally Posted by Bladewire

.htaccess can stop a lot of the low life bots,scrapers, etc. You get immediate results, though this took me a long time to test via trial and error. Here's a snippet from one of mine. A lot is cut out, this is only a snippet, immediately resolved some of my biggest issues. I allow more than the US on my sites, again, this is just a snippet and I've given just a few lines from each section