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I make it a habit of going over the Wordfence live activity on a regular basis so as to keep an eye out for strange/unusual things.
A little while ago I noticed something new that kept showing up (example image captures below) *look at the stuff in the {} brackets that is added after the name of my files…what the heck is that about?!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Tqi0KSyi9FMFU1NHJiS3lPS3c/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Tqi0KSyi9FZ1hBZlpzXzY4WVE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Tqi0KSyi9Fel9wX2FYY3JBOGM/view?usp=sharing
All the search engines end up looking for these variants of my files and of course if end up in yellow on wordfence (aka not found).
I also get this added to my file names more frequently lately too (the part that gets added is in bold)
United States Redmond, United States tried to access non-existent page http://bendedreality.com/the-fossil-that-changed-human-history/js/html5.js
6/13/2017 1:48:44 PM (4 minutes ago) IP: 207.46.13.173 [block] Hostname: msnbot-207-46-13-173.search.msn.com
Browser: IE version 9.0 running on Win7
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
And of course it says not found, but why does the search engines look for these if they don’t exist on my site? this is driving me insane AND it seems to massively affect my traffic, one day I can get massive Google traffic and all of a sudden I see these things added to my files and traffic drops horrifically!
What is really going on here?
- This topic was modified 5 minutes ago by skygazer.