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JB_41040
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Sep 02, 2011

WebAccelerator causes problem for crawlers?

Has anyone else encountered this problem? we launched the BigIP WAM 3900 system in Mid july and have had significant drop in traffic - almost 30-40% and google webmaster tools indicates drop in google...
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Johnny_Schmidt_
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Dec 29, 2011
You ought to be able to see if those crawlers are hitting your site at all by user agent string. That's where I'd start looking first for an answer. Create a request-logging profile (for v11) or enable logging in WAM (v10) to start collecting that data.

 

 

Cheers,

 

-dude