So as I'm roaming through this site today, I've noticed that there are 4 bots as registered users on the site. Their user names (as shown on the bottom of the site are: Ask Jeeves [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], Majestic-12 [Bot], and Yahoo [Bot]
I was just wondering if this is something you've done Grant or what the deal is.
Bots on the site?
Bots on the site?
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ZiggyZoomba
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Re: Bots on the site?
These are the "crawlers" that come to the site from search engines to index content. They view pages just like a user would, so phpBB3 allows you to "recognize" them for what they are and filter them out of your page view statistics and the like.Strouse wrote:So as I'm roaming through this site today, I've noticed that there are 4 bots as registered users on the site. Their user names (as shown on the bottom of the site are: Ask Jeeves [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], Majestic-12 [Bot], and Yahoo [Bot]
I was just wondering if this is something you've done Grant or what the deal is.
Grant Cummings
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ROLL ALONG!!!
"We are linked to this institution by invisible bonds that do not wither or dissolve." --BGSU President, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald - 1968
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rollalongFF0304
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Re: Bots on the site?
For when the metal ones decide to come for you:
