Problem with unwanted traffic

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    1 month, 4 weeks ago

    Hello @joelmellin

    Thanks for using Yoast SEO. It seems your website could have been a victim of internal site search spam. Thankfully, Yoast SEO now includes the crawl optimization feature that automatically applies a noindex directive to your search results page, keeping these URLs out of Google. Even if you’re seeing this kind of data in Google Search Console, it’s not affecting your SEO. You can learn more about the settings here.

    From your screenshot, Google crawled the spam URLs, and marked them as 404, so they aren’t indexed. With time, they will be removed from Google Search Console

    Thread Starter joelmellin

    (@joelmellin)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Ok, but it seems like it is taking a lot of bandwidth and sometimes overloads the server.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    That’s why I mentioned the crawl optimization feature that automatically applies a noindex directive to your search results page, preventing crawling of such.

    Plugin Support Jose Varghese

    (@josevarghese)

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of recent activity. The original poster can change the status to Not Resolved to re-open the issue or open a new topic.

    If you are not the original poster but have a similar issue, please open a new topic.

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