googlebots appear as guests on my forums
 

on my forums every time i log on a googlebot appears as a visitor i know because i checked the ip is that meant to happen

what forum software are you currently using?

Have you added googlebot to the spider identification string ? almost all popular forum software support this feature now.

Originally Posted by dc1pop

what forum software are you currently using?

I guess phpbb, i think forum link is on his sig

yeah phpbb is that meant to happen or not then

at IPB we can set their (robots) access, and IPB supports with googlebot, msn, askjeeves, etc, forgot it :D

well are they meant to appear as guests or not

well.. I guess that depends if you want them to or not. :)

anyway, theirs a hack to stop it I believe.

http://phpbbhacks.com

thanks for the link but i do not want to stop themcoming i just wanted to know if there was something wrong with my forums or not

its nothing to worry about, infact its goood

its just googlebot spidering your forums, you site will appear on google soon. or updated cache pages

yeah today it was wierd as the ip of the googlebot changed what does that mean

Originally Posted by Fkrule

yeah today it was wierd as the ip of the googlebot changed what does that mean

Doesn't mean anything, you'll notice this quite often. Google has a lot of spiders.

Originally Posted by Scott

Doesn't mean anything, you'll notice this quite often. Google has a lot of spiders.

Yup google is filled with sneaky spiders. Plus those guest with google thing appear on my forums too so its not a matter of concern they been coming for long . I had google adsense ads and they were there most of the time even when i was not there i suppose. Google Adsense account closed for some freaks actions and now i dont see them no more . So its those google ads that might be attracting the spiders. I doubt that they consume too much bw.

I have the same problem, no harm... just annoying :)

Googlebot's on my forum all the time as a guest, it's 100% normal...

thanks guys i was getting worrried that there was something wrong with my forums.

Originally Posted by Fkrule

thanks guys i was getting worrried that there was something wrong with my forums.

i owuld be happy if that happens to my forums :d

i do not understand what you are saying.

Originally Posted by Fkrule

i do not understand what you are saying.

I said i would be happy if bot came to my site atleast i will get more visitors! :)

yeah i am not like that

Originally Posted by Fkrule

yeah i am not like that

What do u mean?

don't worry about it mate

Originally Posted by Fkrule

on my forums every time i log on a googlebot appears as a visitor i know because i checked the ip is that meant to happen

What are they supposed to do? Magically register, check their email, login, and start posting?

i know it was inmitating what i was doing.