Problem with unwanted traffic

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    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)

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

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    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)

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