During working on the new features for transposh, we have stumbled upon an issue which we could fix. The issue was that many bots scanning this site scanned pages with the parameter “replytocom” which is quite useless. Apparently – this useless parameter has caused over 2GB of traffic for this site in the last 9 months.
We have taken the liberty to extract a few lines of code and create a plugin which fixes this. Now available at the wordpress plugin directory.
A small rant about the wordpress site, since the voting for plugins is anonymous, the plugin was voted down by someone, which we have no way to know who he (or she) is. Not with any reasons we can think of (After all, free plugin, to fix a specific problem, with no intentions, which just works). If we’ll put our hands on him…. 🙂
Can anyone explain in bit detail about parameter “replytocom” and how they are created in our blogs?
Just look at the reply buttons below the comments, the link is there, used for javascriptless clients
Thanks mate for the clarification. I installed it on my blog. Hope it reduces some CPU load atleast some.
In a test I have done now, this param was ~10% of the site requests (much more than I have ever imagined) so expect some improvement, but this won’t double the cpu speed (or really save little bunnies)
I know when google has given me over 200 errors so sti, in searches on google and these results also appear if you click by mistake 404, I lose so users.
With this plugin but have not gone all replytocom, there is no way to completely remove this thing?
Hello,
The plugin can not immediately eliminate this from google, but over time the search engines will forget those pages, If your users get 404, you can redirect them too (and not just the bots) with a bit of fiddling with the plugin code
Good luck
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But you are Italian? I received an email in English, as some results were in searches, What does the plugin? should not do redirects Article?