Googlebots appear as guests on my forums

[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

 

[dc1pop]

what forum software are you currently using?

 

[SaN-DeeP]

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

 

[bentong]

what forum software are you currently using?

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

 

[Fkrule]

yeah phpbb is that meant to happen or not then

 

[mappaiyo]

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

 

[Fkrule]

well are they meant to appear as guests or not

 

[dpk87]

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

anyway, theirs a hack to stop it I believe.

http://phpbbhacks.com

 

[Fkrule]

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

 

[adam_uk]

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

 

[Fkrule]

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

 

[Scott]

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.

 

[killerid]

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.

 

[ben51959]

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

 

[photoshopfreak]

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

 

[Fkrule]

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

 

[unknownz]

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

 

[Fkrule]

i do not understand what you are saying.

 

[unknownz]

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!

 

[Fkrule]

yeah i am not like that