What are Bots?
Internet robots are known by many names — bots, spiders, web bots, robots, and crawlers. What all bots have in common is that they are software applications or scripts. Where they differ is in the tasks that they perform. They’re purpose or benefit is simple: to quickly complete jobs, especially repetitive ones. Bots are most commonly used in indexing on a search engine. When used for this purpose bots are programmed to visit sites on the Internet for use on search engine results pages. That is, the hits that you get the next time you perform a search on your favorite search engine will be there, in part, because a bot went out and identified that site. Bots run periodically to make sure that the webpage still exists and is still relevant to a given topic. These bots are known as web bots, web spiders, or a web crawlers. Web bots will also collect links from the website it visits and add those to the list of sites to visit. If you have heard that it is important to get other sites to l
“Bots”, for those not familiar with the term, are basically computer programs that “surf” multiple websites to perform a variety of automated tasks. Examples of bots include those used by the search engines. Those bots retrieve a copy of your web page so that they can include relevant terms from that page in their search index. Not all bots are benign however. Some bots go through your website looking for web forms and email addresses to send you spam. Other bots probe your website for security vulnerabilities. • Who is this article for? Before you rush to implement the things suggested by this article, I should probably mention the following prerequisites. • Your website must be hosted on an Apache web server, and your web host must have a facility known as “.htaccess overrides” enabled. If this is not the case, you won’t be able to do anything mentioned here without bringing your site down. In practice, this usually means that your website is hosted with a commercial web host since m
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