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Sudden increase of random Googlebot requests, anyone else?
One of my client's websites, which uses WordPress has been seeing a massive uptick in Googlebot requests. All the requested paths look to be randomly generated phrases with a "o-<6-7 digit random number>" appended to the end. It began as a few requests every hour to hundreds of requests every few minutes. This site receives less than 100 organic visits every day, with no change since this began. I'm about to just block Googlebot because all these requests are hitting my origin. Anyone else having this issue?
UPDATE: I think it's the CloudFlare AI Labyrinth setting. I've disabled it and am monitoring to see if it continues.
u/Regular_Length3520 — 5 hours ago