Currently 2 members, 1 guests and 18 web robots (Google) on the boards.|

is it normal tohave 14 google bots on the boards they been on for few hours now i thought they only stay for few mminutes plus what does this mean

Google | Retrieving Password | 02:30 PM | 64.68.82.50

This is what I saw on the "Who's Online" section. What does it mean retrieving password? Is it taking our passwords?

no its not taking your passwords its just following this URL:

http://www.spinzone.org/forums/member.php?action=lostpw

That as far as it will get.

I've never even seen a google bot on the forums and I've been using the Search Archiver hack for about 2 months.

come and visit my forums and you will see loads of googlebots
did you submit your site to all the search engines listed in the first post?

Yup, did it initially when I installed the hack. Very weird. Now I'm working on the optimizations and making my archive folder .html instead of just www.clantt.com/archive/ in hopes that will help.

i was going to edit my preious post to say place a link on my forums maybe the bots will pick it up but i see you already done i may it live link you have more chances one of the bots picking it up.
also did you do the

i wonder how will these bot stay on my forums because they been here allday today Thanks to TECK
TECK i must say you have made one hell of a hack i never had this amny visits from bot before

Thanks a lot man. I'm having trouble now with the Friendly Urls...it seems to not be working right.

Also, in the user agent checking, where do you put this code:

## function for user ip address checking
## matches full/part of an ip address
## might be useful for people who dont have a .htaccess file
## or those who want to identify bots who dont supply a valid or a cloaked
## useragent. probably should be called on return of 0 from useragentcheck
## in online.php
##
## i think its unnecessary. also the ip address matching isnt great since php
## cant handle CIDR addresses so either you break the ip address up and match
## values or you use ranges (as below) which will also identify ip outside
## the allocated range
## ie crawler918.com
## http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-12-148-209-192-1
## 12.148.209.192/26
## /26 is 62 ip addresses identifying 12.148.209. means that you're blocking 254 ip
## address which will exclude non rogue ips.
## ip address have a tendancy to change and would result in a fairly bit list.

function useripaddresscheck( $match_addr, $addr_code )
{

$addr = array(
'12.148.209.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',
'12.148.196.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',
'12.175.0.' => 'www.nameprotect.com|||crawler918.com',

'63.148.99.' => 'www.cyveillance.com|||cyveillance',
'65.118.41.' => 'www.cyveillance.com|||cyveillance'
);

foreach( $addr as $useraddr => $addrurl )
{
if ( preg_match ("/^\d+$/", $useraddr) )
{
$useraddr = $addrurl;
$addrurl = "Web Robot";
}

if ( preg_match ("/^". preg_quote ($useraddr) ."\d+/i", $match_addr) )
{
$addrinfo = preg_split ("/\|\|\|/", $addrurl);
if (!($addrinfo[1])) {
$addrinfo[0] = "http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active.html";
$addrinfo[1] = "Web Robot ".$useraddr."*";
}

switch ($addr_code) {
case 0:
return 1;
break;
case 1:
return $addrinfo[1];
break;
case 2:
return '</a><a href="http://'. $addrinfo[0] .'" alt="'. $addrinfo[1] .'"><i>'. $addrinfo[1] .'</i>';
break;
}
}
}

}

## ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##

I'm also having problems with the Friendly URL's not showing up...seems like some of the code isn't exact in the hack as it is in the templates.

i was not sure on the last bit because instructions were not very
clear so i left it out here is screen shot of my forums
http://www.spinzone.org/web_ro1.jpg

I got my friendly URLs fixed...forgot the Navbar thing at the end.

Yeah, I guess I'll leave that out since I don't know exactly where to put it.