Do you know "lj611629.inktomisearch.com"?

[Kathy F]

I don't know anything about search engines or groups to be worried about or anything like that.

And at this point I don't much care if my site is indexed by search engines and stuff. The site is mainly for me and my family, and if we get visitors, that's fine, but I'm not trying to drum up business.

That said: "lj611629.inktomisearch.com" has hit my site more than 200 times in a little over two hours: http://www.kfgeorgia.net/genealogy/showlog.php?autorefresh=1

Should I be worried? Should I try denying them access?

Thanks for your advice.

P.S. They're not researching a particular line. They're bouncing all over the place...

[Scotty]

I don't know anything about search engines or groups to be worried about or anything like that.

And at this point I don't much care if my site is indexed by search engines and stuff. The site is mainly for me and my family, and if we get visitors, that's fine, but I'm not trying to drum up business.

That said: "lj611629.inktomisearch.com" has hit my site more than 200 times in a little over two hours: http://www.kfgeorgia.net/genealogy/showlog.php?autorefresh=1

Should I be worried? Should I try denying them access?

Thanks for your advice.

P.S. They're not researching a particular line. They're bouncing all over the place...

Yahoo Search Robot....

it's been discussed here before...

how to get rid of inktomisearch

in fact if you Google inktomisearch you'll find the link to Yahoo and how to control their robot using robots.txt.

Scotty

[Kathy F]

Yahoo Search Robot....

it's been discussed here before...

how to get rid of inktomisearch

in fact if you Google inktomisearch you'll find the link to Yahoo and how to control their robot using robots.txt.

Scotty

Thanks for the link. I've blocked them from the Access Log, but I'm not denying them access to my site.

Of course, about the time I got them blocked, they developed a rival: phnx.qwest.net

I'll let the new boys play for a while, but if they go as nuts as the Yahoo bot, I'll block them off the log, too. There's no point in having an Access Log if I get hit by the bots so much that any real users disappear off the log before I get a chance to spot them.

[Scotty]

Thanks for the link. I've blocked them from the Access Log, but I'm not denying them access to my site.

Of course, about the time I got them blocked, they developed a rival: phnx.qwest.net

I'll let the new boys play for a while, but if they go as nuts as the Yahoo bot, I'll block them off the log, too. There's no point in having an Access Log if I get hit by the bots so much that any real users disappear off the log before I get a chance to spot them.

You may want to consider this mod for the access log. It creates a new log file just for search bots. You just toggle between the normal and crawlers logs and it provides more info on the normal accesses.

Very nice job.

Main page for TNG mods

#6 is what you want. Depending how brave you are there are others mods there as well.

Scotty

[Kathy F]

You may want to consider this mod for the access log. It creates a new log file just for search bots. You just toggle between the normal and crawlers logs and it provides more info on the normal accesses.

Very nice job.

Main page for TNG mods

#6 is what you want. Depending how brave you are there are others mods there as well.

Scotty

Thanks. I've bookmarked that page.

I hope--in the next week or so--to set up a WAMP version of my site so I can play with it on my laptop and not risk breaking the on-line version as I customize things. I'll try implementing some of those scripts, as well as other customizations.