This is a follow up to https://kriesi.at/support/topic/bug-abuse-of-avia_extended_shop_select-queries/
In this thread, it was noted that a repair for the Avia quieires abuse would be part of release 6.0.9
We run version 7.0 and are seeing a lot of crawling being done by search bots (ie Googlebot or Bingbot) to these Avia query pages, resulting in crawlk budget waset and crashing our server as they (Google specifically) are maxing our CPU and RAM allocation (daily).
How do we revert/reinstate default Woocommerce sort by options as suggested by the thread starter?
Hey Matt,
This seems to be a duplicate thread that we answered, thinkjarvis also points out that
on sites where bots have alreaedy hit and created a sitemap for them to crawl – They will continue to try and crawl those links because they already know they exist.
On new Enfold sites where Bots can no longer crawl the links – All is fine because there is no way for them to access the filter urls in the first place, therefore do not know the links exist.
The Dev Team writes:
On shop overview page the dropdowns for sort by and display do not have a href=” but only a data-href and link is done by js.
When I check my install there is no link:
Best regards,
Mike