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Site Map? - uber1337 - 02-21-2010
Hi everyone. Once in a while I check the "Who's Online" list just to see what people are up to and today I saw a GoogleBot and the link just said "Unknown Location" and so I clicked it(I'm a curious person) and it brought me here
I just was curious as to what that page is, what it does, and why the GoogleBot is always looking at it. If someone could clear this up for me I would be most appreciative
RE: Site Map? - Kharnage - 02-21-2010
I looked around and found this
Quote:I have seen a lot of users posting about guests browsing their forums a lot lately. Most of these guests are Google Search bots. Google bots are simply a computer that is scanning your forum. If it feels your site is nice, content rich, and has a lot of visitors, it will add your forum to Google's Search Results. It has no more permissions than a regular guest does. So, even if it says it is browsing a forum that guests can't see, the bot is simply seeing an error message like a regular guest would.
Please do not make any more topics concerning this, unless absolutely necessary.
To read Google's Privacy Policy and FAQ's about their bot(s) please see:
http://www.google.com/bot.html
Please note that this is not caused from the Google ads. They may bring some more bots around our servers, but the bots were there before the ads as well.
Forumer and Google are in no way affiliated with eachother.
Majicman
http://fhq.forumer.com/phpbb2-general-questions/17476-google-bots-read-before-posting.html