aioseo-bad-bot-blocker.log being indexed by Google

  • Resolved codings

    (@codings)


    2 years ago

    Hi, thank you for this plugin!

    I just randomly (by randomly I mean searching Google for a suspected search spam IP address in an incognito window) and found that the IP address I was searching for showed up a few results down the page… for my site as the result.

    /wp-content/uploads/aioseo/logs/aioseo-bad-bot-blocker.log is being indexed by Google, with the complete log open to the public. Searching found many other sites with the same log exposed. Seems like a big waste of an indexes page, among other potential issues.

    Is this normal?

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  • Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    Hey @codings,

    That isn’t normal. It’s quite strange that Google was able to find that file since it’s not referenced anywhere. For now, you should be able to remove it from Google’s search results by adding a disallow rule under Tools > Robots.txt for the /wp-content/aioseo-logs/ path. It will take some time but eventually Google should drop it from their search results.

    I’ll see if we can add such a rule by default in the future so that users like you don’t have to add it manually.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Thank you

    Plugin Author arnaudbroes

    (@arnaudbroes)

    @codings by the way, I would also recommend you to manually remove the file via FTP if you don’t need it any longer.

    Thread Starter codings

    (@codings)

    Thanks for confirming that that is ok to do.

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