guests in our locked forum

by lesley Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 16:02

Can anybody please shed some light on this please. We have a locked forum and today have had a guest apearing in there, from china . we do have the correct boxes ticked and it is locked. I have saved the guests details and ip address, But not sure what else to do and how to prevent any further guests coming in. many thanks in advance. xox

by ***AFINA*** Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 16:21

Maybe it was just a bot...

by Glad E Olah Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 16:31

I have wondered about bots. Can the go to hidden places of the forum?

by lesley Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 17:37

sorry, what are bots ? , thanks for your replies peeps

by ***AFINA*** Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 18:21

They scan your forum and bring visitors Wink

by MrMario Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 18:34

They don't harm your forum in anyway. Bots search your forum and update their search engine.

by lesley Sat 3 Jan 2009 - 23:03

yes but this was a deffinate guest as the bot wasnt showing anything there, and the forum is locked, i have the ip address is there something i can do ? thnaks peeps. xo

by akashic Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 0:03

Hi Lesley

Do you mean 'who is online' was showing a guest ? If so, this is perfectly normal they are not viewing your forum if guests are not allowed. It shows people as guests when they are on the log in/register page of your forum.

by lesley Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 0:17

i understand what you are saying and thanks for your reply, but this ip address is not one of ours you see, So I am still confused lol, thanks for your help. xox lesley

by ***AFINA*** Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 0:19

If this guest didn`t make anything bad for your forum - just relax. Basketball

by akashic Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 0:23

lesley wrote:i understand what you are saying and thanks for your reply, but this ip address is not one of ours you see, So I am still confused lol, thanks for your help. xox lesley

1. A member will show as a guest until they log in - so you would probably recognise the ip no.

2. People who haven't registered will obviously also show as guest if they visit your register page, thats why you wouldn't recognise the IP.

Guests show up on my forum all the time, there's no need to worry they cannot actually view your forum if your site doesn't allow guests.

by lesley Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 0:29

ok I feel a lot better now, so thanks everyone for all your help, it's very much appreciated, I'm still trying to teach myself all the bits and bobs of our forum, but feel great knowing there is people who are willing to help us when need. (((((hugs)))))......lesley xox

by Blofeld Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 1:55

Ah right i was wondering what bots are so they scan your forum and bring guests nice. :wouhou:

by akashic Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 12:12

Hi Mr Stamper

Bots take screenshots of your forum which enables people (when searching for sites using keywords) to find your forum, and other similar forums.

by Guest Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 12:23

akashic wrote:Bots take screenshots of your forum which enables people (when searching for sites using keywords) to find your forum, and other similar forums.

They take screenshots? I don't think so. All they do is gather information that is used to reference your site and allow it to show up in it's respective search engine.

by akashic Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 13:00

Hi Daijiro

All they do is gather information that is used to reference your site and allow it to show up in it's respective search engine.

Thats what I said > '(when searching for sites using keywords) to find your forum, and other similar forums.'

My apologies re: screenshots, I have screen shots on the brain at the moment. I meant they collect data etc.

Bots:

Bots are most commonly used in indexing on a search engine. When used for this purpose bots are programmed to visit sites on the Internet for use on search engine results pages. That is, the hits that you get the next time you perform a search on your favorite search engine will be there, in part, because a bot went out and identified that site. Bots run periodically to make sure that the webpage still exists and is still relevant to a given topic. These bots are known as web bots, web spiders, or a web crawlers.

Web bots will also collect links from the website it visits and add those to the list of sites to visit. If you have heard that it is important to get other sites to link to yours, this is why. The more hyperlinks of your URL there are the better your site will be rated by search engines. In addition, bots can be used to check links on a website to make sure they are directing clicks to the right location and look for errors in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code.

by SaadAli Sun 4 Jan 2009 - 14:52

L Need Some Help l can not login to my forum The maximum number of 9 login attempts has been exceeded. You are not allowed to login for the next 90 minutes.