Googlebot over-crawls our website and create lot of PHP execution request

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  • Avatar: slw250@hotmail.com
    slw250@hotmail.com
    Participant
    July 28, 2024 at 20:48

    Our web host giving us notifications that google bot over crawling our website, and using lot of resources, as we are on shared plane so we have limited quota for php executions, would you please help us to over come this problem
    The response from hosting company is in the private content area

    best regards,

    Please, contact administrator
    for this information.
    9 Answers
    Avatar: Justin
    Luca Rossi
    Support staff
    July 29, 2024 at 08:02

    Dear @slw250@hotmail.com,

    We hope this message finds you well. We are currently in the process of updating our robots.txt file and would appreciate your assistance. Could you kindly provide us with the list of URLs that GoogleBot crawls on your website? This information will help us ensure optimal website performance and search engine interaction.

    Thank you for your cooperation.

    Best regards,
    8Theme’s Team

    Avatar: slw250@hotmail.com
    slw250@hotmail.com
    Participant
    July 29, 2024 at 09:52

    Thank you Rossi for you quick response
    Here is the screen shot for the bots
    https://prnt.sc/TIaqrqL7uw6v

    We already have robots.txt file on hosting server
    as you can see the following screen shot
    https://prnt.sc/YxWxVSF2wj4U
    But it still over crawling our website
    We temporarily block the googlebot in cloudflare by creating a custom rule under the WAF protection
    More over we activate I am on Attach Mode in Cloudflare

    Please contact administrator
    for this information.
    Avatar: Justin
    Luca Rossi
    Support staff
    July 29, 2024 at 09:57

    Hi @slw250@hotmail.com,

    Could you please help us to add the following rules to your robots.txt file then check again?

    
    Disallow: /my-account/ 
    
    Disallow: /*?et-wishlist-page 
    
    Disallow: /*add_to_wishlist=* 
    

    Let us know how it goes!

    Avatar: slw250@hotmail.com
    slw250@hotmail.com
    Participant
    July 29, 2024 at 10:04

    now our robot.txt file look like this

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow:

    Disallow: /my-account/

    Disallow: /*?et-wishlist-page

    Disallow: /*add_to_wishlist=*

    https://wholesalebuddy.net/sitemap.xml

    Do you want me to remove the WAF rules from the cloudflare and disable I am on attack mode as well?

    Avatar: Justin
    Luca Rossi
    Support staff
    July 29, 2024 at 10:07

    Hi @slw250@hotmail.com,

    Yes, let do that. We need to check how is it going after.

    Thank you!

    Avatar: slw250@hotmail.com
    slw250@hotmail.com
    Participant
    July 29, 2024 at 10:10

    done
    How do we check the stat to ensure everything going smoothly

    Avatar: Justin
    Luca Rossi
    Support staff
    July 29, 2024 at 10:55

    Dear @slw250@hotmail.com,

    We hope this message finds you well. We would like to kindly suggest that you consult with your hosting provider’s support team regarding the GoogleBot’s requests. It is important to ensure that these requests do not become excessively frequent.

    We trust that this issue will be efficiently resolved and that there will be no further concerns regarding large requests from GoogleBot.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

    Best regards,
    The 8Theme Team

    Avatar: slw250@hotmail.com
    slw250@hotmail.com
    Participant
    July 29, 2024 at 11:05

    Hello,
    They confirm that the executions decreased but they need 24hours to observe to conclude the result. I will let you know after 24 hours

    Avatar: Justin
    Luca Rossi
    Support staff
    July 29, 2024 at 14:35

    Thanks @slw250@hotmail.com.

    If you need anything else, please let us know.

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