SMF google bug

[SMterminator]

I was viewing the users online thing and i saw this:

http://smterminator.walagata.com/usersonline.jpg


the ones with a red thing around them are googlebots, what are they doing there?

[bostasp]

That isn't a bug... that's google spidering your site.

[Ben_S]

That isn't a bug... that's google spidering your site.

Yes but the pages it was on it shouldn't be able to get to.

It's not a bug though, googlebot is visiting the page after the admin has to determine what ad's it should show. Obviously googlebot will just see a go away message as it isnt an admin.

[Gobalopper]

You have google ads so it will visit any page the ad shows up on.

You can edit your who.template file to identify those users as being googlebots.

[SMterminator]

i have heardof making a robot.txt file but what does it have in it and where do i put it

[Ben_S]

A robots.txt file will make not one bit of difference apart from block the search engine side of google, this is nothing to do with the search engine but to do with deciding what are relevant ads to show, I highly doubt it will respect robots.txt and if you block it then google ads plain wont work.

[Owdy]

You can edit your who.template file to identify those users as being googlebots.

Really, how? It would be cool: "Google is spidering topic: blaa blaa blaa"

[Gobalopper]

http://www.dune2k.com/forum/?action=who

[Owdy]

http://www.dune2k.com/forum/?action=who

WHOAAA!  That is so cool! Please share that code.

[Gobalopper]

I will but I should probably clean it up a bit first, sorta messy atm. Plus I am working on the member map mod as well. Priorities.

[Owdy]

* Owdy cant wait

Ok, i'll try

[Acf]

looks cool its also nice that you see form wish country they are

[Owdy]

Best is that users and guests are in differend box.

[Ben_S]

That looks really good, I'd go as far as to say it should look like that in the official package.

[Owdy]

it should look like that in the official package.

Endeed

[Acf]

indeed

[[Unknown]]

Browser sniffing is *GOING* to look ugly.  And, the separation, I'm not a fan of that personally .

It's not a difficult template change.

-[Unknown]

[Owdy]

And, the separation, I'm not a fan of that personally .

I am

[Acf]

me 2

[Babs]

me 3 

I can't wait and I think that is AWESOME! Good work Gobalopper!!