Title: WP-admin requests
Last modified: October 20, 2022

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# WP-admin requests

 *  Resolved [angeluisfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeluisfc/)
 * (@angeluisfc)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-requests/)
 * Hi
 * As a user previously comment, the plugin is generating this kind of URLs: [https://www.domain.com/admin-ajax.php?action=force_refresh_get_version&postId=NUMBER](https://www.domain.com/admin-ajax.php?action=force_refresh_get_version&postId=NUMBER).
 * After checking the logs files, I’ve seen Googlebot spends most of the time on
   the “wp-admin” folder with those URLs.
 * Is there any chance to avoid these URLs or to avoid Googlebot to spend most of
   the time with them? I would consider “disallow” but not sure how could I do it
   without affect admin-ajax.php.
 * Kind regars

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 *  Plugin Author [jordanleven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordanleven/)
 * (@jordanleven)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-requests/#post-16117947)
 * Hey [@angeluisfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeluisfc/),
 * That API endpoint is used to check what the current version of the site is and
   is required for the plug-in to work. I’m not sure i understand what you mean 
   by, “After checking the logs files, I’ve seen Googlebot spends most of the time
   on the “wp-admin” folder with those URLs.”. Do you mind explaining the problem
   you’re experiencing in more detail?
 *  Thread Starter [angeluisfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeluisfc/)
 * (@angeluisfc)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-requests/#post-16118080)
 * Hi [@jordanleven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordanleven/)
 * Thanks for the answer. Wouldn’t that work of the plugin causing any kind of problem
   on the server?
 * Regarding Googlebot. I’ve seen that the main urls Googlebot are crawlings are
   those generared by the plugin instead of crawling the main URLs of the site (
   html).
 *  Plugin Author [jordanleven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordanleven/)
 * (@jordanleven)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-requests/#post-16118111)
 * [@angeluisfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeluisfc/),
 * Yes, since this request for the current page version can be taxing in the server,
   request intervals max out at one every 30 seconds per page. If your server is
   having difficulty keeping up with the requests for larger sites, this interval
   as be adjusted up to once every two minutes.
 * As far as the crawling goes, I believe that the Ajax and is required to be allowed
   by bots. You can always adjust your own robots.txt file if you’d like.
 * [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/403753/why-does-do-robots-allow-wp-admin-admin-ajax-php-by-default](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/403753/why-does-do-robots-allow-wp-admin-admin-ajax-php-by-default)
 *  Thread Starter [angeluisfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeluisfc/)
 * (@angeluisfc)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-requests/#post-16120048)
 * Hi [@jordanleven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordanleven/)
 * Then it happens as I thought. Thanks for the confirmation. Maybe I could adjust
   the interval, as you said. However, I think I’ll try without it.
 * I know about robots.txt and admin-ajax… which is why I noticed the issue with
   Googlebot. And that’s why I think could be worth it to mention it (that Googlebot
   is spending a lot of your crawling budget on the admin-ajax pages).
 * Anyway, thanks for your help, and for the link.

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 * Last reply from: [angeluisfc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeluisfc/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-requests/#post-16120048)
 * Status: resolved