Version: SMF 2.0 Beta 3.1 Public
I've noticed in the 'Search Engine' logs that some are viewing members profile - How do I stop this?
Many thanks in advance
Michael
turn off the guest's ability to view profiles in permissions
Already have done that weeks ago but tonight I noticed that a profile was still being viewed.
Making them private still won't stop spiders attempting to crawl them.
You would need to use a robots.txt to stop them crawling them.
In the base of your domain create a file called robots.txt and paste into it.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.php?action=profile
You can also block alot of other sections or individual spiders. You can take a look at my robots.txt (http://www.youposted.com/robots.txt) which block different things for different spiders.
Many thanks. Added to txt file. Will post back in a few days and let you know how it goes.
please do note... if Guest viewing of profiles is OFF, then the spider is NOT viewing the profile... merely attempting to do so.