But when I check the WHOIS results, it says that the “attack” is originating from Google. The system (I’m assuming is a crawler of some sort) has been hitting my website all day today and has now brought up my hits to 300k.

Should I allow this? I’m not sure what to do. It’s non-stop.

Copy/paste if my image doesn’t upload.

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States was blocked by firewall for XSS: Cross Site Scripting in query string: query=%22%26%23×27%3B%3E%3CsVg%2Fonload%3Dalert.bind()(1)%20class%3Ddalfox%3E at https://www.thesilverninja.com/blog/?query=%22%26%23×27%3B%3E%3CsVg%2Fonload%3Dalert.bind%28%29%281%29+cl…

5/29/2024 10:29:27 PM (6 seconds ago)

IP:34.23.26.131Hostname: 131.26.23.34.bc.googleusercontent.com

Human/Bot:Human

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

There are a few other instances where I’ve chosen to exclude bots and the following line of code has been fairly reliable.

if(stripos(gethostbyaddr($ip),'google')==true) return;

I have a problem with GOOGLE search console about sitemaps. My sitemap is: https://www.mendjeshendoshe.com/sitemap_index.xml. In Google search console, when I Inspect the url of sitemap the error after testing about this sitemap is: Failed-Blocked due to access forbidden (403) and also in sitemaps If I erase and resubmit it, I get “Sitemap could not be read – General HTTP error”.

I contacted the HOST after they tried some tests like restarting the server, disabled firewall and also suggested that I disable the plugin: WP SECURITY again had the same problem. Then they manually created the file sitemap_index.xml and I tested it with inspect url sitemap address and it showed success, but the status of my sitemap is again: couldn’t fetch, but after contacting the host they suggested me to talk to you. I haven’t activated the wp_security plugin yet.

The answer and the question related to this topic from my host suggested to you. Host Tech said:
<quote>”So if I create the file manually it works but if we let wordpress to provide the file dynamically it fails. This confirms that it is a software issue with your xml sitemap generator. I believe you are using Yoast. Please check with them what is this about because this issue is not fixed yet. It was a test that I made by creating the sitemap manually but if I delete that file you will have the same issue again. You can tell them that the firewall is disabled and that your .htaccess is clean (it was reverted back to its original status). Maybe it is another plugin causing conflicts with your redirections. You can revert the changes from CloudFlare back. I won’t suggest enabling your security plugin, I’m almost sure that it is related even when it is disabled. There is one plugin causing the issue for sure, either Yoast or any other plugin that is not redirecting google to the sitemaps file.”</quote>

Bing bot Ip is blocked
Site has blocked crawling by BingBot

Thanks,
Sumit Malhotra

I have a WordPress site with only 2 pages where I need my popups to show up (to the use) BUT the thing is the text is present on ALL my pages (but hidden/ not showed to the users).

Googlebot is seeing all my pages with the same (popup) content, and this content is hidden. Meaning only googlebot bot sees it.

this is a clear duplicate content issue on every page of my site

What should I do ?

– not possible to give users the ability to copy certain texts like code area
– the premium plugin does block the google bot and bing bot and until today I didn’t receive any support how to allow google and bing
– slows down the website

URL is not available to Google
It cannot be indexed.
Server error (5xx)

Meanwhile I figured out that this is because of country blocking. I don’t know where Google bots come from (US?), and anyway I don’t want to unblock any country just to let Google in. Is there another way to let Google index pages?

Thanks!

For months, I’ve noticed that google images doesn’t index my images. Tried to figure out why, made several experiments (deactivated lazy load, changed the linking from the thumbnails to a media page instead, used structured data plugins, etc), but nothing changed. Zhe only images indexed by google are… the comment avatars!

Today I noticed in the google search console that the bot doesn’t check the fullsize pictures. Only the thumbnails.

So my question is, is there any wordpress user that utilizes thumbnails who get the full pictures indexed?

A second question: is there any way to resize through img html tags instead of providing thumbnails? Would obviously increase the loading time, but I guess it would allow my images to get indexed by google…

Thanks for any hints!

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/lazy-loading?hl=en-419

Will be nice feature to check referer and deactive plugin on that case. Any plans for that?

Cheers