Any idea to use xmlpc attacks to improve site SEO ?

  • today2020

    (@today2020)


    3 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ve a WordPress web site (uptodate) and I see xmlpc.php access attempting from strange IP addresses.
    No mater, I’ve no xmlpc.php file !-)

    But, just a (dumy ?) idea : why not create a xmlpc.php file which redirects this hack request to something like a google search about my web site ? Can this improve my SEO rank ?

    Right, wrong or dumy idea ?

    Any comment welcomed.

    Thx

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  • Moderator Yui

    (@fierevere)

    永子

    3 years, 3 months ago

    hackbots usually wont follow redirects and will not improve SEO even if they follow.
    searchbots wont crawl xmlrpc.

    So your idea about XML RPC and SEO will not work.

    You either shall have working XML-RPC (optionally protected by security plugin or webserver access rules) or remove it (better idea is to “remove it” by webserver rules), so hackbots will get 404 or 403.

    Also note, if you dont have the file and bots are receiving 404 page from WordPress, this can cause significant load due to page generation

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