I need some help - concerned about robot activity

**Mike** · 01-14-2006 11:24 AM

This is showing up in my sitemap activity files, mostly for the MSN bot and MSN is the site where I have the least pages indexed.

For some reason, these strings show up constantly from the msn bot

archive/index.php/www.advantos-training.de/f-97.html

archive/index.php/www.ffshrine.org/store-compare

There are multiple versions of this. Are these websites somehow redirecting off of my archive pages? If so, what can I do about it?

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 01-14-2006 11:48 AM

Hi!

I see that you have a link exchange block at your archive pages.
Perhaps there were incorrectly entered links there, without "http://", like <a href="www.ffshrine.org">. As a result, they were followed as internal links.

**Mike** · 01-14-2006 12:49 PM

no, that wouldnt be the case because it is the COOP code that is on all of my pages. Those are rotating ads and I am having these same 2 sites showing up all the time. This has been going on for several months now.

**Michael** · 01-14-2006 08:29 PM

I have just checked your source code and it appears that you are placing the Digital Point Coop code literally at the top of the Archive code, even before the <head>, and DOCTYPE settings, perhaps if you where to place the code in the "archive_complete" segment (which would place the advertisements at the bottom of the page) but would perhaps make it more conventionally friendly to validators and search engine bots.

**Mike** · 01-14-2006 09:13 PM

Thanks, I will check that.

Anybody got ideas on how these two sites are getting linked into my archive url's?

**Mike** · 01-14-2006 10:08 PM

After checking all throughout my archive index file I finally remembered that 3.5 uses a plugin for the code and that is where it automatically put it.

Thanks for the plugin tip brent, I modified it and reinstalled it. code is now in the footer, and I also removed the adsense which was doing nothing for me in the archive anyway.

Now, back to my problem

How are these sites getting their url's into my archive? I have over 700 pages in yahoo indexed with ffshrine in the url. This is really concerning for me. I have sent an email to msn and yahoo, not sure what will come of that.

**Michael** · 01-15-2006 08:15 AM

I can only assume that the URLs where in your archive through the Digital Point Coop Advertising network scheme, where someone happended to click on your displayed URLs and was thus recorded within the logs.

**Mike** · 01-16-2006 02:03 AM

Well, if anyone can help me out, that would be great. I can verify that it is not COOP advertising, I know of another site now that is having one of the same sites show up and COOP ads are not in that directory.

When this started, COOP ads were not in my main directory.

**Mike** · 01-16-2006 02:05 AM

I have gotten a response from one of the search engines and amazingly one of these sites are no longer showing up in the SERPS.

**Oleg Ignatiuk** · 01-16-2006 08:01 AM

Hm.. that is interesting: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search

(or even http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search )

I guess it may be a "server logs" kind of spam.

**Mike** · 01-17-2006 10:31 AM

yeah, that is what I am beginning to think. What struck me weird was that a site like digitalpoint has the exact same 2 websites doing this.

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