google detects the wordfence pages ?

Hi @giorgos_d2, thanks for getting in touch.

Wordfence’s ?wordfence_lh=x&hid=xxx... query string URLs are used by Live Traffic so are completely normal activity, but not normal to see in Google. wordfence_lh is checking whether the visitor was detected as human. hid=... is an encrypted unique identifier so the record can be matched to another in the database.

With other customers, when Google bots start listing them as “legitimate” site pages, this is usually due to a theme or plugin misconfiguration where any invalid page URLs (that should 404) are being redirected to the homepage. The expected behaviour when these specific URLs are visited is to return a totally blank page and for Google not to index them for search results.

Clearing any caches such as Advanced Caching plugin and/or server-side caches you may have on your host might reduce the chance of these URLs being served by mistake in case your theme or other plugins were ever misconfigured in the past.

You may need to contact your theme provider or developer for further assistance, or turn off any settings you have for redirecting any not found/invalid pages to another page on your site – usually the homepage.

Thanks,

Peter.

thanks .All these pages are blank .

Live Traffic configuration.
I changed the Amount of Life Traffic data to store (number of rows) to a more sensible range (I chose 50 ) and I reduced Maximum days to keep Live Traffic data (minimum: 1) down to 1. Is this right ???

On google serach control ,google says : ? Detected – not currently indexed
These pages are not indexed or displayed on Google ?

Hi @giorgos_d2, thanks for the update.

“These pages are not indexed” is indeed the desired outcome, so I’m glad to see that along with confirmation that the pages are blank.

You can change your Live Traffic settings to whatever you like, especially if database size is an issue, but my personal recommendation would be to keep a week or so in case you need to look into any blocks and can’t get around to it immediately. You should have the “Traffic logging mode” toggle set to “SECURITY ONLY” to cut down on non-critical visitor page view data filling up your database. This is the default of recent plugin installations, so you may not need to change anything.

Thanks,

Peter.