[ic] Googlebot woes (yeah I know, same old...)
Mark Bryant
mark at eros-shop.co.uk
Mon Feb 13 11:52:58 EST 2006
Hi Everyone,
I'm experiencing problems with googlebot hammering my catalog because
of the daft way it doesn't remove/ignore obvious session ids in URLs
it follows.
Writing to the coders that look after it (who allegedly offer to help
you if the bot's being a pain in the butt) gets you nowhere at all. I
waited over 4 weeks for a response and the advice I got from them was
to look at a page on removing session ids in phpbb forums - not very
helpful if they can't even identify the product I'm using when it's
something as widely used as IC :(
Anyway whinging that googlebot's support useless aside, I realise
this is a non-issue in the latest versions of IC that are available,
but I'm running a partially customised IC 4.8.7 (which means
upgrading to the latest IC isn't really an option) and wondered if
anyone could offer guidance for finding a way to add/patch in the
RobotUA/RobotIP functions that seemed to first appear in 4.9 to 4.8.7?
I've looked for patches/code via google and the icdev web site, but
not turned up anything I could use. Am I looking to do something that
simply isn't possible with 4.8.7?
Many thanks in advance
Mark
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