John Mueller from Google stated that bulk-generating faux URLs of your competitor’s website mustn’t result in unfavourable search engine optimization and rating points for that website. “This isn’t one thing I would fear about,” he added.

Mike Blazer requested John, “Bulk generate non-existing URLs on a competitor’s website that result in 5XX server errors when opened. Googlebot sees {that a} substantial variety of pages on that area return 5XX, the server is unable to deal with requests. Google reduces the web page #crawl frequency for that area.”

John replied on Mastodon saying, “I am unable to think about that having any impact. This isn’t one thing I would fear about.”

Here’s a screenshot of this dialog:

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Discussion board dialogue at Mastodon.