GM-University1405241492 0 Report post Posted July 19, 2005 I have a problem with MSN search, I was under the impression that it followed link on my site, but for some reason it is finding pages that don't exsist on my forums, or really wierd ones, it hasn't read any posts, it just checks the login and registration pages and all sorts of wierd things...I am sure that the group that the bots are treated as have acess to the forums to read them, but they still don't check posts, it just comes every day and see's if my users long-in differently now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
runefantasy 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 They think it's a different page that you uploaded... You can block search engines from searching those 'weird' pages by using robot.txt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trekkie101 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 phpBB by any chance?Its pretty useless at helping search bots find anything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GM-University1405241492 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2005 No, it was IPB, and the page was /index.php?somethingcrazyhere=somethingcrazyhere so it wasn't something I uploaded, not really... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Klass 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2005 Here is my robots.txt for my Vbulletin forum: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /forums/attachment.php Disallow: /forums/avatar.php Disallow: /forums/editpost.php Disallow: /forums/member.php Disallow: /forums/member2.php Disallow: /forums/misc.php Disallow: /forums/moderator.php Disallow: /forums/newreply.php Disallow: /forums/newthread.php Disallow: /forums/online.php Disallow: /forums/poll.php Disallow: /forums/postings.php Disallow: /forums/printthread.php Disallow: /forums/private.php Disallow: /forums/private2.php Disallow: /forums/report.php Disallow: /forums/search.php Disallow: /forums/sendtofriend.php Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php Disallow: /forums/usercp.php Disallow: /forums/admin/ Disallow: /forums/images/ Disallow: /forums/mod/ Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /cache/ Disallow: /albums/ Disallow: /gallery/ Disallow: /downloads/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /language/ Disallow: /manuel/ Disallow: /modules/ Disallow: /netpbm/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: admin.php Disallow: auth.inc.php Disallow: banners.php Disallow: config.php Disallow: counter.php Disallow: download.php Disallow: footer.php Disallow: friend.php Disallow: header.php Disallow: index.php Disallow: links.php Disallow: mainfile.php Disallow: modules.php Disallow: reviews.php Disallow: sections.php Disallow: stats.php Disallow: top.php Disallow: topics.php Disallow: user.php Disallow: vbp_includes.php Disallow: vbpolls.php Disallow: viewtopic.php Disallow: voteinclude.php Might help you set yours up for IPB.Yes I have most of it disallowed but what is not disallowed the spider can crawl Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FirefoxRocks 0 Report post Posted October 12, 2008 You can try using Live Webmaster Tools to manage what Live Search crawls for a specific site. It isn't as advanced as Google Webmaster Tools, but it is mainly for Live Search and is quite useful actually.http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
