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# Huge visits from suspected Googlebot

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Grassblock1 (@grassblock1) · 2024-07-16

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This morning I received an email from vercel which says I got 75% of free tier. And I login to vercel dashboard later and see a project which seldom used received about 300k traffic from "google bot" in the past day.
![图片|690x405](upload://no99Z5TtBX1V9avN4yFVCDlzgfU.png)
and I go to "usage" and see very high usage of all sorts of services in July 15th:
![图片|690x411](upload://8oTgTAlg8NT454RGQuySiSuBE4X.png)

This is truly not what I want. So I deleted one of these projects and I had enabled attack challenge mode but seems there is no remission for that...what should I do?


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2024-07-16

Hi @grassblock1!

Sorry to hear about this. You've done the right thing enabling [attack challenge mode](https://vercel.com/docs/security/attack-challenge-mode).

I'll also share some more resources on other tactics with [Vercel Firewall](https://vercel.com/docs/security/vercel-firewall) that you can use moving forward.

> seems there is no remission for that…what should I do?

Let me see what I can do internally! Could you send me your Vercel ID?


Scott (@vercelscott) · 2024-07-16

Hey @grassblock1, we've identified your account and we can observe what you have shared with us.

To mitigate this in the future, @pawlean's advice is perfect: [Attack Challenge Mode](https://vercel.com/docs/security/attack-challenge-mode) and [Custom Rules](https://vercel.com/docs/security/vercel-waf/custom-rules) will help. We even have some [common examples](https://vercel.com/docs/security/vercel-waf/examples#common-examples) for you to check out.