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Robots?

Discussion in 'Website Items, Issues & Feedback' started by Borky00, May 28, 2015.

  1. Borky00 Well-Known ReefKeeper

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    I was looking to see who was on line today and I saw 10 robots. Is that bad? Should we be worried? Do people have apps that are pulling data from our site for a legitimate reason?

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  2. GoodGreef Well-Known ReefKeeper

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    These are not the robots you are looking for. *waives hand*
     
  3. Bud Loves Bacon Website Team Board of Directors Leadership Team GIRS Member Vendor

    West Des Moines, IA
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    There are always bots scraping the site, there were on the old site also, there just wasn't a way to see it. Google, bing, yahoo bots scrape for content. Yandex and Baidu are Russia/china bots. I have an addon that bans them (they ignore a no robot setting) but haven't installed it yet. Not really a ton to worry about, the vast majority of sites do not ban Yandex and Baidu because they are very difficult to effectively ban.

    The only thing that you should worry about, and this goes for anything you ever post on the Internet, ever, is your personal info in posts. That's why I added the mid to the spoiler feature that hides the spoiler info from guests - all bots are unregistered guests.

    Although it is probably worth also checking your settings for what information you share and to whom. In settings, "members"=registered users (not GIRS/club/paid members). This means guests cannot see the associated info (birthday, online status, etc)

    I should do a quick video that overs this...
     

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