Why would someone go to same 404 page over and over?
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Good morning,
I've been using the redirection plugin on my wordpress site and noticed i have multiple IP addresses going to the same folder on my site - like "mydomain.com/folder-name/". The "folder-name" is obviously not anything remotely like any folder or file name I have on my domain - so it's obviously spammy in nature.
And, there are multiple IP addresses going to this same URL address every 3 hours on the dot, so it's appears automated.
Is this something to be concerned about? Should I "do" anything?
Thanks in advance for reading and replying!
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply.
Any idea on "why" people do this? It's an obviously spammy URL that they would go to over and over.
And for Robots.txt file for these spammy links, are you referring to using the "disallow" function for this file name?
Thanks Chris,
Michelle -
Hello,
A simple solution would be to add a robots.txt that will close the page to bots. This is typically for pages you do not want search engines to crawl, however if it is spammy and it's just 'fake' traffic from bots this could cut down on it.
If you would like it to be removed from your analytics you can add it to a removal page. Essentially, it will not show any traffic that goes to that page.
Hope this helps.
Chris Hickman
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