[Ted S]

Originally Posted by jeff21up

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

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.