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Old 11-27-2019, 02:24 AM  
wankawonk
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
A 429 Too Many Requests error code could help, although you would need to be careful not to overdo it.

According to this page, Google sees 429 as being the same as 503 Service Unavailable.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...ode-20410.html
I've been thinkin about this and realizing how smart it is

hit me more than once in any given second? 429. I can't see how it could hurt SEO...you're literally telling them, "you're hitting me too much, slow down". how could they penalize you for that? yeah there might be less-important URLs they might not hit but that was always a factor back when we could use search console to slow them down.

404'ing them or blocking them from urls with robots.txt seems stupid in comparison.
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