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Southernphuk · #1 07-06-2007, 05:02 AM

Hola,

I've noticed over the last month that the spiders, bots and webcrawlers have really punched it up a notch, where I used to get around 150-200 a day I'm now getting closer to 2000 of them a day now and I can't for the life of me figure out why!

Any clues or ideas for the clueless here? I've got a robot.txt file but that is to keep them out of certain areas that they really have no business bothering with (profiles, pm's, etc) but have shied away from outright cutting them off from the site as I figure that is a good way to have a presence in the search engines which of course everyone wants them to funnel their way.

Anyhow, extremely curious about this and wouldn't mind some thoughts and insight on this.

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