Spiders

[Paul]

Just wondering why the sites spider count as trebled since the upgrade?

 

[Hoogle]

Because new upgrade means better tags in search engines which means more bots and spam but over all hopefully more genuine members.

 

[Paul]

I thought tags came from images or titles posted by members, making searchers click back here from those said tags, creating higher clicks for the site.

 

[Hoogle]

No every site has tags embedded in ie photoshop, tutorials etc the more you update the tags and the more you have of them search engines will list the 1s with the most matching tags highest. the tags put on threads etc are mainly for the forum search engine however they can also be picked up by search engines.

 

[Paul]

Ergo more bots/spiders?

 

[Hoogle]

here is an example of some of our tags for the home page

<meta name="keywords" content="Photoshop Forum, Photoshop Tutorials, Photoshop, Tutorials, Articles, Adobe, Photoshop tips, quick tips, graphic design, graphics, design, effects, faq, forums, layers, photoshop resources, photoshop troubleshooting, photoshop for 3D, photoshop tools, photoshop jobs, web design" /> <meta name="description" content="The latest on photoshop with tutorials, resources and a friendly Photoshop forum only on Photoshopgurus.com" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="144395068923414" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Photoshop Gurus Forum" /> <meta property="og:description" content="The latest on photoshop with tutorials, resources and a friendly Photoshop forum only on Photoshopgurus.com" /> <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta property="og:image" content="http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/images/avatars/psg-logo-square-90px.png" />

 

[Hoogle]

Bots iniatially troll search engines the higher results get trolled more than the lower 1s

 

[dv8_fx]

In short.... more work for me in hunting down those eggheads..... lol....

 

[ibclare]

good hunting guys!

Just a little levity; I am not disparaging the work you do. Au contraire mon ami! Thanks for ridding us of those creepy things :mrgreen:

 

[Paul]

Theres still more now than before?

 

[admin]

Just to be clear... spiders does not mean spam bots. Spiders are from search engines like Google and Yahoo etc. If there are more spiders now than before it just means they are indexing our pages more for their search results.

 

[ibclare]

Oh duh, we should all know that! Forgetter's working overtime :mrgreen:

 

[Hoogle]

Well I hope that was what I was trying to get across lol

 

[Paul]

Just asking.