: How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is

@Rambettina238

There is a lengthy article on how to fix crawl errors and on typical problems. Some hints may be of use for you (when to reply with 301 HTTP status codes, when with 404 Status codes etc.).

You should doublecheck if the attempt comes really from the googlebot and is not some attempt from an external source to gain information by playing with the URL. Or, by checking if there is a referer, if it comes from an external link actually.

It's not the same situation here as with infinite loops or "endless" followable links one sometimes sees on result pages with pagination. But you should fix your code to handle the case of "crap" parametrization.

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