# Vercel — BotID uncovers hidden SEO poisoning

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-09-22T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/botid-uncovers-hidden-seo-poisoning
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20815-botid-uncovers-hidden-seo-poisoning
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel's blog describes how a financial institution used BotID to discover that suspicious bot traffic was actually verified Google crawlers re-crawling indexed pages from a years-old SEO poisoning attack on their previous infrastructure, not an active threat.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/botid-uncovers-hidden-seo-poisoning:

> The results from BotID were unexpected. The suspicious traffic was not from malicious scrapers or attack infrastructure. Instead, every request originated from bots.fyi-verified Google crawlers, including Googlebot, Google AdsBot, and other legitimate Google services.

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