I wont try it.I still have very good rated of registrations.Anyway i will press installed and nominated because of the great work.

I have been fiddling with this to see what affect it has on new members etc, I turned the number of pages up to 30 and new memberships have gone up??? I guess I am saying don't assume the standard settings are the best for your forum.

Works fine mate :)

i need this hack for vb 3.7 beta 6 help me

If you're not using it you don't need to mark it as installed as the updates won't pertain to you.

This addon is for the 3.6 series and will be ported to 3.7 once it is released.

Installed and working thank you ;-)

Just one question, I have read every thread so as not to repeat something. I understand how it works for bots however on monitoring my who is online for over a week I only ever see the bots reading 1 thread and then they always end up viewing member profiles and never go to another post/thread?
I have settings set to view 1 post for guests, so it seems that after the 1 post they are then moving to member profile as if they cannot get to another post. I have monitored this by staying on the page and reloading page so i can track accurately.
Any thoughts please?
Jeff

Sorry to keep asking, what if i have my forum set to require admin approval.
It works fine however when i move someone from "registered" to "Unregistered/Not Logged in" they can still access all of the forum? because i think to enable it to work on the guests you have to have "unregistered/not logged in" to be able to view thread contents. For some reason it works for guests but not for people who have been moved from registered to unregistered/not logged in?
What could i be doing wrong?
Thanks
Jeff

If you feel bots can't navigate your site properly, disable the hack and see what happens (or adjust your settings to allow more than 1 thread to be viewed and see what happens).

That said, a bot will, by it's nature follow links on a thread which include member profiles. How exactly they hop around is a combination of your internal navigation, inbound links, the amount of new content and some other factors... it's not as if they go linear from thread to thread then profile to profile. If all your pages (or most of them) are in the index and updated regularly then you're getting spidered.