Most Googlebots are fake

83 · Digitalseams · July 26, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
Googlebot Web Scraping Bot Identification Site Traffic Management
Summary
The blog post discusses the common misconception that traffic from Googlebot is always legitimate. The author claims many instances of excessive traffic blamed on Googlebot are actually due to malicious bots impersonating it. They explain how to verify if traffic is truly from Googlebot and provide approaches for dealing with issues related to web crawling.
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