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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:56 am Post subject: Let's play spot the bot!

The search engines bots that is! We are adding a facility to the forums that will show you in the admin panel and in "Who is on line" the identity of the spiders that read your forum either to add it to search engine listings or for google to target site advertising. The list of bot ip addresses is vast, so if you trace an ip that is not reported as a spider from the admin panel, please report the IP here and we will verify it and add it to the database. Also if something is misidentified as a bot, then please report that as well. As these things do change over time. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums Last edited by admin (no pm's please) on Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:20 pm; edited 1 time in total forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject:

Ok, thanks. I just noticed that looking throught my admin panel :P . I was thinking. Ok what shall i do? Ban the IP address or leave him be?..... _________________ - Is it a new post? - Is it an old post?

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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:

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Ok, thanks. I just noticed that looking throught my admin panel :P . I was thinking. Ok what shall i do? Ban the IP address or leave him be?.....

Bots are good for your forum. Don't ban them!
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

I know , i thought it was like a hacker because i never saw that on their before. So i was like this o_0 . Thanks - Survive _________________ - Is it a new post? - Is it an old post?

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject:

How do they help your forum? do they add them to google? _________________ Hi This is Nillis' Sig, boring until... http://thecoffeelounge.myfreeforum.org/

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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

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How do they help your forum? do they add them to google?

Yes or to other search engines. The google advert bot also makes sure you see relevent advertising, hopefully making the adverts more of an interest than a nuicance..
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

I've had loads of bots, Google and MSM are the main ones I've seen _________________ \| Royal Marines Online \| Royal Marines Forum \| Quick look busy, admin is coming

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject:

on my forum people called "google advert targeting" are on most of the time. How is this a good thing? I just dont understand it _________________ What became of the likely lads?..... Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?....

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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject:

Carl Barat wrote:

on my forum people called "google advert targeting" are on most of the time. How is this a good thing? I just dont understand it

read here http://howtodoit.myfreeforum.org/ftopic68.php
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:48 am Post subject:

ive searched for my forum on google but i dont know a topic to search,ive looked but o well http://halobox360.myfreeforum.org visit me and join i only got 11 users

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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:58 am Post subject:

google takes time and effort! _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:35 am Post subject:

I also have seen loads of bots on my forum since it opened in early january, but it is not on google. most of the time there are two bots on every time i go on! _________________ www.sronova.org The Guardian

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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:

First time i,ve seen one of these AskJeeves/Teoma bot 27 Apr 2006 11:52 pm 27 Apr 2006 11:52 pm Forum index 65.214.44.47 _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject:

Saw this today might be of some interest Record Type: IP Address Cached Whois: 2006-04-30 IP Location: United States - California - San Francisco - Alexa Internet Blacklist Status: Clear Whois Record United Layer, Inc. UNITEDLAYER-1 (NET-209-237-224-0-1) 209.237.224.0 - 209.237.255.255 Alexa Internet ALEXA-INTERNET (NET-209-237-237-0-1) 209.237.237.0 - 209.237.238.255 _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:47 am Post subject:

THnaks for that, have put it in the list (not deployed yet). Reputedly this is one of the more useless bots _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org