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    unusual guest activity

    this is too wierd. I have a persistent "guest" . it's imitating me. every forum or thread I enter it shows as being there as well. as if it's ghosting me. when I go into admin panel the guest shows as being in the admin panel as well. I looked up the isp for guest and came back with this info.

    OrgName: Google Inc.
    OrgID: GOGL
    Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    City: Mountain View
    StateProv: CA
    PostalCode: 94043
    Country: US

    NetRange: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
    CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19
    NetName: GOOGLE
    NetHandle: NET-66-249-64-0-1
    Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
    NetType: Direct Allocation
    NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
    NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
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    RegDate: 2004-03-05
    Updated: 2004-11-10

    OrgTechHandle: ZG39-ARIN
    OrgTechName: Google Inc.
    OrgTechPhone: +1-650-318-0200
    OrgTechEmail: arin-contact@google.com

    # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-06-27 19:10
    # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
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    This is Google indexing your forums for their search engine. Most people consider this a good thing.

    Note, it will only be able to view what Guests can view.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Machol
    This is Google indexing your forums for their search engine. Most people consider this a good thing.

    Note, it will only be able to view what Guests can view.
    this is definitley a good thing then... I was just wanting to make sure. It was so odd!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Machol
    This is Google indexing your forums for their search engine. Most people consider this a good thing.

    Note, it will only be able to view what Guests can view.
    If we figure out how to do sitemaps (google) will that improve what google can see?

    otherwise, does google spider vbulletin forums well or are there things I should do to make it happen?
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    Google will spider your site as it sees fit, a site map might help.

    MAke sure guests can read content, otherwise theres no reason for google to spider you
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    Quick question.... I have disabled guests being allowed to view who's online, however they can view content. So how is it that every time I view a thread thats in a private forum or something, then hop to see whos online, they (the bots) are trying to access it as well? Obviously they can't and receive an error, but how do they know how to go there? What are they using to know where I am in the forums?
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    You have google ads or toolbars installed?
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    adsense is on, yes
    but even before they were I was experiencing this
    ..no toolbars
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    well it dispatches an adsense spider to try to get that pages content so it can deliver you an add
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    Ah.... thx
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