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BL, the geek in me needs to know how this works..... I just checked the home page so that I could see the truck of the year and I looked at who was on-line I saw 3 bots listed as registered users.

Does this just happen or is there a place that lists the bots available and the site owner can then register the bots to the site so that they can report back to the search engines and get us on the search results.

It is a silly little thing that probably doesn't interest anyone but me cares about, but any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

LilRedExpress Wrote:BL, the geek in me needs to know how this works..... I just checked the home page so that I could see the truck of the year and I looked at who was on-line I saw 3 bots listed as registered users.

Does this just happen or is there a place that lists the bots available and the site owner can then register the bots to the site so that they can report back to the search engines and get us on the search results.

It is a silly little thing that probably doesn't interest anyone but me cares about, but any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

They're not "really" registered. The site recognizes them by their user-agent or sometimes even by IP address and displays them that way. I can set up additional bots, but the main ones are already built in. The only thing it is useful for is for me to be able to make sure the search engine bots see what I want them to see.

oohh that's cool. i never knew that. thanks!!!