Support » Plugin: Relevanssi - A Better Search » Multiple nearly identical searches from same IP all day every day

  • One of my clients has been hammered by searches coming from an IP owned by Google. We uninstalled and reinstalled Relevanssi last night and an hour later had almost 30 searches from that same IP. When I went to block the IP using Wordfence, it told me the IP belongs to Google and blocking it would affect site crawls, etc.

    This isn’t specifically a Relevanssi problem, but I would like to know why her site is being hammered like this. It’s the same search every time. It eats up bandwidth on her site for no good reason.

    I have Relevanssi installed on a number of other sites and do not have this problem with any of them. Any insights would be appreciated.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/

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  • Plugin Author Mikko Saari

    (@msaari)

    Maybe you could block the Googlebot from your search URLs with robots.txt or robots meta?

    I have no insight on Googlebot behaviour.

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