How do I disable bots?
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How do I disable bots?
How do I disable bots?
pensive218- New Member
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Re: How do I disable bots?
I don't think you can, as your forum is on the Internet and Google uses its bots to crawl and search for things. It's good to have bots on your forum as they collect your information and your forum is put on Google. Which is good
Re: How do I disable bots?
Also, anti-spider mode [active] is the default for Forumotion forums which will help to keep most of the nasties away. This is in General>Forums>Security.
Re: How do I disable bots?
Hi,
This is easily possible
Feel free to review the tutorial I took the time to put together
=> https://help.forumotion.com/tricks-tips-f32/bots-who-and-what-they-are-t55170.htm
This is easily possible
Bots tutorial wrote:Can I control these bot's?
No, as forumotion does not allow user's to access their database they cannot access the Bot's management.
However, if you want you CAN disallow robot's visiting your site altogether. This is strongly not-recommended as it will decrease your "Google Page Reference" and possibly decrease the number of people visiting the forum.
If you still want to disallow the bot's from visiting, then =>
Navigate to: Admin panel >> Display ( Tab ) >> Homepage / Generalities >> Scroll down until you see "Additional meta tags" >> Click the >> Select the default "Create a meta tag type", then fill in the details:
"name" attribute : Robots
"content" attribute : noindex, nofollow
Feel free to review the tutorial I took the time to put together
=> https://help.forumotion.com/tricks-tips-f32/bots-who-and-what-they-are-t55170.htm
Darren1- Helper
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Re: How do I disable bots?
I dont know if forummotion changed sometime, but I followed your directions, and cannot find the "Additional meta tags" link. Is it possible it was removed?
I really dont want bots, as my forum is not public, it's for a game, and I dont want random people from the web signing onto it.
I really dont want bots, as my forum is not public, it's for a game, and I dont want random people from the web signing onto it.
smitsmit- New Member
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Re: How do I disable bots?
Go to your Admin Panel>make sure it is in Advanced Mode>General>Forum Promotion>Search engines. What you want is all there.
Re: How do I disable bots?
I have followed all the steps above and I am still getting bots that we do not want
alicia- Forumember
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Re: How do I disable bots?
alicia wrote:I have followed all the steps above and I am still getting bots that we do not want
Can you confirm the meta tags are correct?
Bots canoot follow if you have the 'no follow' meta tag in
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