Forum Bots phpBB3
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Networking
Acquaintance
Bots search your forums and improve your google, yahoo, aol etc rankings. If you remove them, your site won't be indexed as much.
Dark Takua
Paragon
dotDavid, that's what bots are really for, they are for indexing your site on Google, yahoo, etc. or ranks such as Alexa rankings.
More specifically, the Baidu Spider is sucking up my Bandwidth so I really only want that spider to die. I've seen on other forums where those bot/spider accounts have been deleted but they are still large, indexed and active.
Dark Takua
Paragon
Well, I haven't seen this problem. Try reporting it to phpBB.com forums?
Unknown Bliss
Resident
If you remove the spider, then you will get less indexing and a lower PR, however, it may be worth removing it and banning it's IP in the cPanel IP Deny Manager as even if you remove the bot on the forum it will still come on your site and suck bandwidth.
CyberFreak
Legendary Typer
I will clear this up.
If your delete a bot from the bot list, it will still index you site as much as it was indexing your site previously. The whole reason the bot list is there is to detect bots so they can be treated as a different group compared to human guests. You can allow bots to see things that guests can't or vice versa. If you delete a bot from the list, it won't show as online but it will still visit and it will just be treated as a guest and can only see what a guest see.
Also, when bots view your site and get treated as a bot, it means that they will index your site better as if a bot gets treated as a bot it doesn't show the sid at the end of the links like it sometimes do to guests. It handles "bots" differently compared to normal users.
To stop a bot visiting you need to block their ips or ip ranges they use.
If your delete a bot from the bot list, it will still index you site as much as it was indexing your site previously. The whole reason the bot list is there is to detect bots so they can be treated as a different group compared to human guests. You can allow bots to see things that guests can't or vice versa. If you delete a bot from the list, it won't show as online but it will still visit and it will just be treated as a guest and can only see what a guest see.
Also, when bots view your site and get treated as a bot, it means that they will index your site better as if a bot gets treated as a bot it doesn't show the sid at the end of the links like it sometimes do to guests. It handles "bots" differently compared to normal users.
To stop a bot visiting you need to block their ips or ip ranges they use.
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