Farting False Traffic from Googlebot: Tips from Google Expert

Martin Splitt, Google Representative, warns websites owners to be careful with traffic that seems to come from Googlebot. There are many requests that GoogleBot seems to be in fact from third parties.

🚀 Fake crawls can distort analytics, consume resources and complicate the accurate assessment of your site performance. If you suspect GoogleBot fake activity, Splitt advises to use the following Google tools to check it: URL Inspection Tool (Search Console), Rich Results Test, Crawl Stats Report.

An important detail, which is worth noting, is that these tools check what sees and does real GoogleBot, but they do not detect directly imitators in your server magazines.

• 📌 To fully protect yourself from Fake GoogleBot, you need to: compare server logs with official Google IP IPs; to realize verification using the reverse DNS search; Use the above tools to install the basic legitimate behavior of Googlebot.

Splitt also emphasized the importance of monitoring the server reviews for scanning requests, including: 500 series errors, data from data obtaining data, timutas, DNS problems. These problems can significantly affect scanning efficiency and searching for large websites that have millions of pages.

🚀 Out-of-security, Fake traffic from Googlebot can affect the performance of the website and SEO-losers. Splitt stressed that the availability of a website in the browser does not guarantee access to GoogleBot, pointing to various potential obstacles, including: restrictions on the Robots.txt file, firewall settings, bots protection systems, networking problems.