This topic has 10 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 4 months ago ago by Luca Rossi
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,
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
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
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!
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?
Hi @slw250@hotmail.com,
Yes, let do that. We need to check how is it going after.
Thank you!
done
How do we check the stat to ensure everything going smoothly
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
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
Thanks @slw250@hotmail.com.
If you need anything else, please let us know.
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