66.249.75.58 – – [09/Apr/2019:15:44:15 -0500] “GET /?cat=-1&page_number_0=2&page_number_4=3&page_number_6=1&page_number_19=2&page_number_20=2&page_number_16=2&page_number_5=2 HTTP/1.1” 200 457785 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +https://www.google.com/bot.html)”
I have All In One SEO installed and canonical URL’s enabled. Any idea why Google is accessing the pages using these types of URLs?
I added an entry to the robots.txt file to disallow /cat=* and hopefully that will take care of it, but I’m wondering what would have triggered this sudden behavior from Googlebot. Also what’s with all the different page number parameters?
]]>I had the same problem a few years ago, this drove me crazy… Googlebot was doing infinite crawl with a not-so-well-constructed plugin page with a lot of GET parameters.
This could help you: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76401?hl=en
robotx.txt config should help you indeed
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