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tray5753
Search Spiders
  • 2004/5/23 10:02

  • tray5753

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Hi,
Once in my admin menu i saw something like an option for treating search engine spiders/robots as anonymous users or webmasters or registered users. Now the problem is that i don't seem to be able to find it anymore, but i am sure i saw it somewhere, can anyone tell me where exactly is it? That will be very helpful

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brash
Re: Search Spiders
  • 2004/5/23 10:07

  • brash

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Hi tray5753,

In your admin section goto system admin -> Preferences -> Meta tags & Footer, and the robots config should be a bout the third item down.

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tray5753
Re: Search Spiders
  • 2004/5/23 15:06

  • tray5753

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  • Since: 2004/5/7 7



The item there is :
"
Meta Robots
The Robots Tag declares to search engines what content to index and spider "

But what i want is that the configuration regarding treating robots as registered users or anonymous users, i can't seem to be able to find that

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tl
Re: Search Spiders
  • 2004/5/23 15:59

  • tl

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  • Since: 2002/6/23


Quote:

tray5753 wrote:
Hi,
Once in my admin menu i saw something like an option for treating search engine spiders/robots as anonymous users or webmasters or registered users. Now the problem is that i don't seem to be able to find it anymore, but i am sure i saw it somewhere, can anyone tell me where exactly is it? That will be very helpful


There is no such a thing treating spider as a registered user. It is always being treated as anonymous and granted such a previledge. You definitely not want the spider to be webmaster.

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DonXoop
Re: Search Spiders

I don't think there is a setting for treating spiders as anything but anonymous. You really really really don't want them as anything else. Search results would be useless since a user clicking a link would come in as anonymous anyway. But security is the biggest reason.

You do however set-up your Meta tags etc. to best reflect your site. Personally I set-up a robots.txt file so that spiders (good spiders) don't index portions of my site that would not be beneficial or would go stale quickly.

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