MSN Help Problem - AstaHost

	MSN Help - Problem
	Discussion by GM-University with 5 Replies. Last Update: October 12, 2008, 4:19 pm

GM-University

I have a problem with MSN search, I was under the impression that it followed link on my site, but for some reason it is finding pages that don't exsist on my forums, or really wierd ones, it hasn't read any posts, it just checks the login and registration pages and all sorts of wierd things...
I am sure that the group that the bots are treated as have acess to the forums to read them, but they still don't check posts, it just comes every day and see's if my users long-in differently now...

Tue Jul 19, 2005 Reply New Discussion

runefantasy

They think it's a different page that you uploaded... You can block search engines from searching those 'weird' pages by using robot.txt

Wed Jul 20, 2005 Reply New Discussion

Trekkie101

phpBB by any chance?

Its pretty useless at helping search bots find anything.

Wed Jul 20, 2005 Reply New Discussion

GM-University

No, it was IPB, and the page was /index.php?somethingcrazyhere=somethingcrazyhere
so it wasn't something I uploaded, not really...

Tue Aug 9, 2005 Reply New Discussion

Klass

Here is my robots.txt for my Vbulletin forum:

CODE

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/avatar.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/member2.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/private2.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendtofriend.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/admin/
Disallow: /forums/images/
Disallow: /forums/mod/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /albums/
Disallow: /gallery/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /manuel/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /netpbm/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: admin.php
Disallow: auth.inc.php
Disallow: banners.php
Disallow: config.php
Disallow: counter.php
Disallow: download.php
Disallow: footer.php
Disallow: friend.php
Disallow: header.php
Disallow: index.php
Disallow: links.php
Disallow: mainfile.php
Disallow: modules.php
Disallow: reviews.php
Disallow: sections.php
Disallow: stats.php
Disallow: top.php
Disallow: topics.php
Disallow: user.php
Disallow: vbp_includes.php
Disallow: vbpolls.php
Disallow: viewtopic.php
Disallow: voteinclude.php

Might help you set yours up for IPB.
Yes I have most of it disallowed but what is not disallowed the spider can crawl

Tue Aug 9, 2005 Reply New Discussion

FirefoxRocks

You can try using Live Webmaster Tools to manage what Live Search crawls for a specific site. It isn't as advanced as Google Webmaster Tools, but it is mainly for Live Search and is quite useful actually.

http://webmaster.live.com/

Sun Oct 12, 2008 Reply New Discussion