OK, it's probably an Internet or computer term I and not familiar with but,

Who's Online

5 registered
2 guests...

0 Spiders???????

might be "chevybird"...lol

A chill just went through the room...

This is the world wide web.

Just don't make me watch "Arachnophobia"

spiders crawl the web and are the internet version of computer bugs... you have to spray the apple machines every few months but the EPA of course dillutes the formula so it doesn't give mice cancer.. so it never really kills the spiders... just makes them sick but it slows them down so you can step on them...

looks like Geoff is on it

ain't me....

Spiders crawl the web for content and what a lot of the search sites do to look for updated content. With that said, you should always see zero as long as they "listen" to my settings to "ignore" this board.

i see we have a spider online.

Google Spider... Someone Googled in... to find out how to identify a 6 cylinder..

Still 1 spider and 3 invisible spiders, the worst kind!

And the Google one was looking for body shops in Canada....

invisible canadian google spiders... scary

ha, there's a spider on line. first time i've seen a 1 there

Spiderman?

There seemed to be a lot of guests tonight, too.

How come the spider won't go away, it's been on here since yesterday!

Now there are 2 spiders! Hurry up and spray them Geoff!

Barking spiders?

Interesting the Google spider seems to be dedicated to the forum as it is always here.

ya know people pay big money to se companies now...

but do I understand you as saying even with a <meta name = "robots" content = "noindex"> you are still getting searched?

I have confidential price lists on my website and the last thing I want is some google spider outting me!

hmm, I just looked at your source and didn't see the code in the header? aren't we comparing apples to apples on this one? how do you hide from spiders?

I was using the robots.txt and do not have it in the page coding. I took it out to see what it would do and if I liked the Google search better than the board search feature as I use Google as the site search engine.

I didn't like google as a search because they posted competitors in the paid advertisements next to the results of my website... so I use the hosts index to search...

anyways my website is no where near your level of traffic, but I'm definately interested in search engine ranking... I do use robots.txt, headers, keywords.. the pages have little graphics and long summaries, filenames and directories are keywords..

any free advice? thanks in advance