Title: Googlebot grabbing files ;) Last modified: September 28, 2017 --- # Googlebot grabbing files ;) * [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/) * Hello. Thanks for a great tool! * Could you please help me with one strange thing? My site was launched for a few minutes after that i’ve got about 25-30 downloads. I was checking the ip in a log and found that they belong to google bot. How can i avoid this situation and have a more realistic log? * Regards. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9538429) * Hi, you might want to password protect the download files. You could try this step to see if it resolves your issue. * Let me know how you go. * Kind regards * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9538458) * Since the all files provided for free download, not sure that’s the right solution. * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9538563) * and manually setting passwords for more than 1k files is a bit complicated * Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9539227) * Do you have any security plugin installed in your site? * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9539298) * wordfence * [Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnuttall/) * (@dnuttall) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9539331) * Does the root folder have an index.php that is ZERO BYTES? * If you can login at the “shell/command” line, try executing this in the root folder where the downloads are positioned: * “**touch index.php**” * That will create a ZERO bytes file and could convince the bots that there is nothing of value to rampage thru. * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9539399) * yes, there’s a index.php, but it’s not zero bytes * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9539642) * 2 more downloads today, site was hidden behind “maintenance page” * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9562995) * So, I’ve tried everything I can, but unfortunately log is still grows because of google/yandex bots. Is there anything else you could suggest to solve this? * Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9564766) * I have submitted a message to the plugin developers to see if they can come up with a solution to your problem. * Thank you * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9565471) * great. thank you * Plugin Author [mra13 / Team Tips and Tricks HQ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mra13/) * (@mra13) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9568555) * I am a little stumped. Not sure what a good solution for this is. * You should maybe enable the following option so you are not getting repeat downloads from that bot and filling up the log: * `Log Unique IP` * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9574935) * Probably it will help, but it will have a negative impact on the accuracy of statistics. Is there any possibility to exclude/blacklist IP’s from logging? * p.s. – one more bug – Downloads by country doesn’t show any information * Thread Starter [kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/) * (@kirillm) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9815135) * Hello. After last several updates problem is still persist, unfortunately. * Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/) * (@mbrsolution) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/googlebot-grabbing-files/#post-9816023) * [@kirillm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirillm/), is that a unique IP address? If it is you might want to block that IP address from your site. Do you think that would work for you? 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