Since last night this ip address 65.55.213.2 has been accessing my webstore and creating shopping carts each with one item in them. Around 200 carts so far. The IP address does not show in my stats. I googled the ip and it said it was msn and also came up with this for it: livebot-65-55-213-2.search.live.com Anyone know what this is? Thanks!
Well, a bot follows all the links on your site, including the "add to cart" links. Might want to block the "cart" pages in robots.txt
too bad that bot does not have a credit card to checkout and pay for those items. probably more live bot spam. wait till it starts hitting your site with all kinds of single word keywords. it screws up your stats as well. nothing like seeing hits from live with keywords like attorney, lawyer, doctor, airline tickets, movies, etc. the bad news is that live does not even obey robots.txt disallow. i got so fed up with it that i tried to block msn/live but it still happened. frustrated, i returned my robots.txt file to normal. every month or two live hits me with the same crap again. live defends these spammy actions as a defense against cloaking, etc.