Customizing SMF > Modifications and Packages
Limit A Guests Daily PageViews Mod
4b11l:
--- Quote from: karlbenson on July 14, 2008, 08:19:52 AM ---Important Note: Spiders/bots are not treated ANY differently by this mod than human guests.
Anything a spider can see a guest must be able to see. Excluding Spiders from being affected by this mod is likely to be against Google & other search engines terms of service. (Would likely be seen as black hat).
Therefore spiders CANNOT have a higher limit, be excluded from the limit.
If you got caught employing such black hat techniques you are likely to be sandboxed (permanently or temporarily banned from the search engines)
Therefore I will NEVER be adding functionality to differentiate with spiders as it amounts to cheating search engines. (Trying to force guests to register, while still giving spiders increased or full rein)
Limiting spiders IS likely to have an impact on search engines as they will only be able to index a very small no. of pages per day.
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Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation Karl.
ArkServer:
--- Quote from: 4b11l on July 14, 2008, 12:38:28 AM ---
--- Quote from: evil-angelist on July 14, 2008, 12:26:10 AM ---I will be adding this later, thanks and fingers crossed it goes in smoothly. For those questioning the spiders and bots I guess you can set the page view limit to whatever amount of views you are happy with a day to have them access the site.
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I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing, but hopefully in an update in the future there is a way to exclude them? I'm not sure doesn't google use bots to scan your site and will limiting it hinder how google ranks your page and what not?
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It's not a very hard thing to do but since this isn't a mod of mine(heck i haven't submitted any smf mods i've made) i'll keep my mouth shut. But if you know a bit php you would know how to exclude it and modify the code accordingly.
That said, great mod.
karlbenson:
Indeed, bit like i said, its not worth it.
Google and other search engines do attempt to detect these sorts of black hat tricks.
And if you get caught, being banned from google could be the death of most sites.
Lum-chan:
What would be a fail amount of 'free' views to set initially? I have it for test at 50 pageviews but I'm thinking of lowering it to 25 pageviews...
Nibogo:
Simple Karlbenson Forum :P :P
Great work
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