[SOLVED] High Unviewed Traffic in Drupal site

It had been bugging me for days. Unviewed traffic for my site was pretty high, more than 5 times the viewed traffic. When I checked AWstats in my cpanel, I found that Googlebot had been eating up 4 times more bandwidth than my normal visitors. So how did I solve?
Well, it took me days to figure out what was wrong. Finally, I checked Latest Visitors in my cpanel. I found out Googlebot was looping through Calendar pages. I had installed a calendar module. And each day of  month of years was linked to. So that created floods of traffic from Googlebot to my website. So what did I do?

I added this to my robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow: /calendar/

And that solved my problem :)

4 Comments

  1. t0x1caT0r says:

    I, for one, would’ve removed the calendar module. :P

  2. Nitesh says:

    You’d remove your kidneys if you have kidney stone? :P

  3. t0x1caT0r says:

    haha. Lol. Yeah, I would.

  4. adrinux says:

    Ah, snap! Just upgraded a site from event module to calendar+date+cck and found logs filled with 404′s for weird dates in the calendar. Have just added:

    Disallow: /event-calendar/

    to my robots.txt, thanks for the tip!

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