I just noticed we have lost some 2000 pages on google since we installed this. It might be an idea to turn it off once a month for a week as it appears to still block spiders.

i had reported that during the beginning of this hack when it came out but the author of this hack could not get this fix and said it works fine i long uninstall it so my googles stats is back up


i suggest the same thing since they won't do anything about it.

Nice mod, thanks very much. :)

I'm not sure how you're coming to this conclusion. Google does not use cookies and therefore it can't get blocked by this hack which is cookie based. Even if Google did use cookies the hack specifically excludes it (as well as yahoo, msn and a few others) from being impacted. Search rankings and indexing is dependant on a lot of factors, are you certain this is the only one on your site, outbound links, inbound links, content and so forth that has changed?

That said; if you don't think this addon is doing what you want it to do, please don't use it. My expertise is in helping communities become more marketable and to that end, I've released a few free addons to help sites out but not everything I make is ideal for every site.

I appreciate your concern but I'm a bit puzzled by the "bug" you are reporting. Can you explain exactly what this is doing to stop google from indexing your site? Do you have any logs, screenshots or google sitemap reports that indicate there is a problem that I can use to work off of? I'm all for updating the addon and fixing any known bugs but I can't fix something without evidence of what's broken.

I installed this, and set all the option, and followed the instructions. Yet I found there was no 'take-over' or 'blocking' of the website. Any help would be appreciated.

The website I'm talking about is http://userbars.ws

Got one when I visited your site. Think it was after 15 clicks

Cheers.

Obviously I wasn't patient enough to get that far through my website.

You can change the settings to lower the number of posts a user can view by going to your ACP --> vBulletin Options --> Limited Guest Viewing.

This add-on works great with'out any problem, I confirm that this don't block any spiders.
I believe that Welcome Headers system and Limited Guest Viewing are the two must important and usefull hack ever made for vBulletin users.

Thanks Ted_S