Google Bot issue..

I am using phpbb for my forum.. lately i notice that google is trying to loggin on and poof gone.. how am able to let google to crawl in my forum?

 

remove session ID's for guests

 

how? where is the session ID resided?

 

# 
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------ 
#  

includes/sessions.php 

# 
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------ 
# 

$SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; 

# 
#-----[ REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------ 
# 

if ( $userdata['session_user_id'] != ANONYMOUS ){ 
   $SID = 'sid=' . $session_id; 
} else { 
   $SID = ''; 
} 

# 
#-----[ SAVE/CLOSE ALL FILES ]------------------------------------------ 
# 
# EoM 

Code (markup):

This is from the Able2Know SEO Mod.

 

Also you can ban googlebot via robots.txt from accessing login.php page.

 

thanks for the tips. Great tips.

 

huh?? ban googlebot in robots.txt? how?

 

Here's my robots.txt

My forum is in a subfolder "forums/" so if your is different you would need to change it. Just make a file called "robots.txt" and put it into your root directory (whether your forums are there or not).

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /forums/admin/ 
Disallow: /forums/images/ 
Disallow: /forums/includes/ 
Disallow: /forums/language/ 
Disallow: /forums/templates/ 
Disallow: /forums/common.php 
Disallow: /forums/config.php 
Disallow: /forums/groupcp.php 
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php 
Disallow: /forums/modcp.php 
Disallow: /forums/posting.php 
Disallow: /forums/profile.php 
Disallow: /forums/privmsg.php 
Disallow: /forums/viewonline.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/faq.php

Code (markup):

This keeps google bot (actually all bots) from entering these areas of my forums.

 

checking it out now..nice of you all.

 

the robots.txt should place it in the forum directory or the root?

 

it goes in the root

 

oops.. error typo.. didnt read clearly. sorry man. root. Can i put it in my forum directory?

 

no, bots look for it in the root