Title: googlebot
Last modified: March 25, 2018

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# googlebot

 *  Resolved [gillesweno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillesweno/)
 * (@gillesweno)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-6/)
 * hi,
    We regurlaly receive email notices from Sucuri telling us that the page 
   was updated by Googlebot and other bots, incuding some that look like spambots.
 * How come a bot can update a page? When using page revisions from the admin backend,
   there’s no history of the changes and the pages seem intact on the frontend.
 * Thanks,
 * message:
    Website: [http://www.xxxxxx.ca](http://www.xxxxxx.ca) IP Address: 66.249.69.46
   Reverse IP: crawl-66-249-69-46.googlebot.com Date/Time: 2018-03-07 22:37 Message:
   Page was updated; ID: 337; name: Questions fréquemment posées (FAQ)

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 *  [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * (@yorman)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-6/#post-10113746)
 * > How come a bot can update a page?
 * A web crawler cannot do that by itself.
 * What I think is happening is that your website is designed in such a way that
   when a HTTP request hits the FAQ page the code is reacting by applying a modification.
   It is not possible to know what was the modification using the information above,
   but I could think of some:
    - Maybe the post table has a visitor counter column that is counting the number
      of visits, which means that every time a HTTP request is detected, the content
      of the table is modified and this triggers the security alert.
    - Maybe there is another plugin running in the background that is modifying 
      an existing column in the database, I have seen some 3rd-party themes updating
      the “created_at” and “updated_at” columns.
    - Maybe there is a bug in your code that is mistakingly triggering the execution
      of the `publish_page` WordPress hook which is what the Sucuri plugin uses 
      to detect changes in the posts and pages.
    - etc […]
 * Your web developer may have more information.
 * At this point, it’s not possible for me to give you a better answer because I
   don’t know how your website was built. I will be marking this ticket as resolved,
   but if you have the PHP source code of the FAQ page and are willing to share 
   it we can re-open the ticket and continue the investigation.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-6/#post-10113746)
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