Have you noticed through your Google account that there are items being indexed that shouldn't have been?   One for me was taxonomy terms.  Not important to be followed. Being indexed on my sitemap (do I just erase those entries on the XML file?) Being crawled (I am guessing this is with a robots.txt file though I have never created one before) Being viewed (stumbled upon) -> if this even possible to block?   Resolve these quickly by simply adding disallow in robots.txt...

As a process I apply patches locally first, then using git upload the update(s) to a development site on the server.  Once the testing has been completed, the final step to apply the patch to the production site.   Using Terminal or your preferred shell program, navigate to the correct directory.  Then run this command using the name of the patch file (example.patch): patch < example.patchHowever, if you are patching Drupal core then remember to patch from the root directory...