The google bot keeps filling up the shopping cart!

[Chris Smith]

How can I stop the bots from filling up the shopping cart! that's ?640 Google owes me now. :D

[LMan]

How can I stop the bots from filling up the shopping cart! that's ?640 Google owes me now. :D

I am having the same problem with Google bot so far $168.00 :'(

[Chris Smith]

I am having the same problem with Google bot so far $168.00 :'(

 

:angry: arghhhh ?1860 now! Dam Google bot. please people I need something to either stop the bot from filling up the cart or something that will kill the bloody thing. :angry: :angry:

[skylla]

In your admin section sessionIDs for spiders needs to be disabled. Also keep your spiders.txt up to date.

[Guest]

Chris & LMan,

I am not having the same prob but I do have a solution for you-

 

google "robots.txt"

By putting this file into your root directory it will allow you to give permissions as to what directories GoogleBot can spider/crawl.

 

Mine is this:

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User-agent: *

 

Disallow: /admin

Disallow: /account.php

Disallow: /advanced_search.php

Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php

Disallow: /create_account.php

Disallow: /login.php

Disallow: /login.php

Disallow: /password_forgotten.php

Disallow: /popup_image.php

Disallow: /shopping_cart.php

 

User-agent: Googlebot-Image <\=-=-Did this to save bandwidth from Google's Imagebot

Disallow: /

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Hope this helps, please let me know if it does. :thumbsup:

[Guest]

How does one keep the robots.txt file up to date?

 

All it is...is a long, scrolling list of possible bots that may crawl your site, but...how does one find out what needs to be added to it?

 

I've disabled spider sessions in Admin, yet...I still have other bots crawling and filling up the shopping cart. How does one know what to add to that file to stop it?

[skylla]

'Disable spider sessions' in admin does not prevent spiders crawling your site, but merely stop them from starting a session and running up a (unpaid) bill.

 

Steve in the meantime keeps himself pretty busy updating and releasing up-to-date spiders.txt. You can download the latest <here>.

 

Anyway, it would be interesting to know if the original poster and the follow up have sorted their problem by simply updating the file in question.