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Hey guys,
I’ll bet my arse someone knows the answer to this one
When a robot (googlebot, Yahoo! Slurp, etc..) spiders your site, do you get ‘clicks’ in your casino stats? I am curious because I recieved quite a few clicks (for me) recently and I was unsure if it was the robot
or potential players :happydancThanks for the help!!
No, thankfully robots do not generate clicks.
It would make things very confusing.
Sweet!
Now…. Players…. Deposit some $$$! :happydanc
Ok, I get a little bit giddy when I get some more players clicking on my links. Moment over.
Thanks for the quick response… and I am very glad that these were not robots clicking my links because I am sure that googlebot is probably a very good poker player and would clean me out!
kw
Legit bots won’t, like Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. But poorly coded bots that everyone and their mother seems to come up with nowadays really don’t work well enough to distinguish between things they should and should not visit (“click”). Most don’t obey robots.txt either.
That’s why I have many of them blocked from hitting my sites. At least the ones that identify themselves through the User-Agent field.
Yeah, I block’em too. They are a nuisance.
But I doubt kwblue has this problem with his new site.
kwblue, congrats! I remember the feeling well!
You are probably quite correct… I don’t think I have too many miscellaneous bots yet.
I am spidered daily by Yahoo and Google, it seems… I usually have about 6 different bots / week spidering the site. Not really sure if that is good or bad. A couple are unidentified (according to awstats).
Thanks for the congrats… It is nice to finally be in the positive for a month.
I have unidentified bots blocked. If they are not known, like google and inktomi etc, I try to get rid of them.
If you lust the bots that see you here, I am sure someone will help you decide if you need to do something about it.
I’m curious about how you block unidentified bots.
Bad wording.
Should be bots not known to me to be search engine bots..
I should have been more specific in my post…
What I want to know is how you tell a bot from a browser.
I would assume that anything you are blocking based on the User-Agent field would also block browsers, unless you’re looking specifically for ‘bot’ in the agent name somewhere.For example, there’s one called “nicebot”, a needless bot. It identifies itself as “nicebot” in the user-agent. There’s dozens out there like that and they’re useless.
What I find funny is I blocked “baidu” a year ago. Now theyre trading stock as of last week. Still means nothing to me, they do me no good and just eat up bandwidth.
There’s many bots who will not identify themselves. They keep things “browser-like” because they know more than likely they’ll get banned. I still watch behaviors, if they don’t identify themselves.
Browserlike bots get past me.
If awstats doesn’t identify them for me, I don’t know who they are.
