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    This is not exactly a WP question, but I recently inherited a WP site that was hacked. I was able to clean up all the bad files, install security and everything is clean now.

    Problem is the site is receiving thousands of hits per day from malicious bots or whatever they are. The security plugin is blocking them and locking out IPs (about 12 per day), but it's screwing up the analytics. Google says the site is clean, but the traffic numbers are ridiculous.

    How can I make this right?

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    • you can wait this out, bots go away. or move the site to a new IP and do a permanent SEO redirect to the new site for a view weeks. then cut the rope. done.api
    • Thank you. Exactly the answer i was hoping for!Cosmodrome
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