[GeoStL] Re: interesting observation. Non-slaga related

  • From: Glenn <Glenn@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:44:42 -0500

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i think that they are limited to main pages and none of the private areas.

At 06:19 PM 8/23/2004, Russ Wilner wrote:

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>Is it not 'robots.txt' that can be configured to tell those 'bots (at =
>least
>the well-behaved ones) where and where not they can go on any given =
>site?
>
>Maybe you don't want to limit their probing. I'm just not sure I'd want =
>them
>crawling through every nook & crannie.
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>      -=3D Russ =3D-  (Bot Fee)
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> > [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn
> > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 18:11
> > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [GeoStL] interesting observation. Non-slaga related
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> > I have been playing with the forum system for mogeo.  When I=20
> > am logged in,=20
> > I can see when the google "spiders" and "web crawling bots"=20
> > hit the site ,=20
> > jump from page to page indexing the various pages. It is=20
> > really weird, dont=20
> > know how they figure out what to do and were to go or how the=20
> > site was even=20
> > there. The bots showed up just hours after turning the thing=20
> > on and they=20
> > visit often.
> >=20
> > It has been up just a week and now  googling just on "mogeo=20
> > forums"  will=20
> > get you
> > mogeo.forumflash.com/index.php?act=3Didx  that goes right to=20
> > the site and it=20
> > is 3rd on the list behind 2 other mogeo pages! Pretty neat=20
> > and not bad.  I=20
> > thought you had to submit something to have the google bots=20
> > come visit.
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> > Bots and spiders.... sounds like something that would come=20
> > out from under a=20
> > log..
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