Spiders!
Spiders!
Yes what's up with this??
This is what is going on:
Black Flag works pretty good too...
The price - or cost - of success...Originally Posted by pmakres1
bo
"Indeed, not!!"
Well what's the deal?? Is it normal to see that much activity on a site from them bugs??
Rob
Basically what it has done is opened up our whole forum to the WWW. It will be interesting to see what happens. We have a lot of information and discussions that I don't feel need to be searchable by just anyone through Google.
I agree...it seems like it happened overnight. It was obvious it had something to do with the google search engine, but the "spider" thing was what I wondered about. Anything Don can do to kill the spiders?
Peter
How ddi they get past the sign in requirement automatically? If not, can the account be killed to prevent entry?
Many software companies block google looks for a number of reasons, most of them legal.
I think that the spiders could be prevented from indexing the site with a robots.txt file, but I don't see any harm coming from Lansing Heritage being found in Google.
The spiders can read posts just like any guest that visits the forum and does not log in. If they try to get to areas restricted to registered members (user CP, private forums, PM's) they will be blocked by vBulletin. You can see this indicated by a little stop sign icon beside the bot entry on the "who's online" page whenever it reaches one of these links.
These spiders are nothing new. They have been visiting and indexing every page of our site and every forum since the day we opened. If it wasn't for them, we would never have grown beyond a small niche site with maybe a few hundred members. My guess is that more new members find out about our site through Google hits on forum posts than any other means. This is because if you type in the most common search terms (JBL or Altec Lansing) you will find us buried pages deep in the search results. It's only with a specific search like "biased and bypassed" that you are taken to our forum.
The only reason they seem to have shown up out of nowhere is that I recently set a switch on vBulletin to translate IP addresses for spiders into the specific search engine name such as "Google Spider". They were always there before, just never explicitly identified.
Regards
Don McRitchie
It will broaden our membership and overall, our depth.The price - or cost - of success...
There will always be some newbies lusting after their newfound / newly refurbished L100's, but we will convert them, over time...
bo
"Indeed, not!!"
Abandon all hope, ye who enter with L100s
Well, you can try anyway. Some of us just don't want to be saved.It will broaden our membership and overall, our depth.
There will always be some newbies lusting after their newfound / newly refurbished L100's, but we will convert them, over time...
We're dancin' at the L100 Disco right outside of Hell.
(And no, I don't mean the one in Michigan.)
Out.
....if it's okay with Don, it must be okay! And like Bo says-
And as for the L100's:
I don't know what it is, but I sold my L100's 23 years ago to buy my L220's, and while there is absolutely no doubt that the L220 is the superior speaker, to this day I still miss my L100's! I don't know what it is about the L100...:dont-knowWell, you can try anyway. Some of us just don't want to be saved.
So come on in newbies, and bring your L100's with you!
Best to all,
Peter
I have to agree. I sold my centry 100s 30 years ago and built a better speaker
but I still miss the 100s.
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