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Is this anything to worry over?

It's nothing, right?

         

springfieldoh

6:30 am on Dec 24, 2018 (gmt 0)

5+ Year Member



Sorry to be so chatty on here but I have issues LOL

There is a pseudo-political website that I run which is really kind of a precarious position to be in (more than anybody that is not politically-outspoken will ever know).

This is my problem:
When I create a webpage, it's as if it's grounded.

HOWEVER, as soon as I delete that same webpage the page starts getting a ton of hits (usually bing and google). This happens regardless of whether or not the sitemap is current at both my end and the webmaster's end (such as google).

But that's not all. Let's say a folder called "/o-h-i-o/" which gets zero hits in the logs is then changed to "/ohio/", suddenly the world rolls over with hits to anything that was contained within the first folder's name.

iptables has me glued (and unglued at the same time)

Am I concerned over nothing?

robzilla

9:14 am on Dec 24, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Perhaps the bots pick up on the page from the sitemap, crawl it after a while, see it's a 404, then increase its crawl rate assuming the error will probably be fixed. How much time are you giving the search engines to crawl the page in the first place? Is this a popular site?