macara Active member Feb 12, 2015 #1 Hi, quick question, what is the difference between ( Guest and Robots ) and which one is more important !! in my forum I have a lot of Robots, is that something good or bad ? thanks
Hi, quick question, what is the difference between ( Guest and Robots ) and which one is more important !! in my forum I have a lot of Robots, is that something good or bad ? thanks
P Paul B XenForo moderator Staff member Feb 12, 2015 #2 Guests are just visitors not logged in. Robots are guests but guests aren't necessarily robots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
Guests are just visitors not logged in. Robots are guests but guests aren't necessarily robots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
macara Active member Feb 12, 2015 #3 so which one is important ? or which one do I care about ? I just looked on articles said" robots and from any search engines" so thats mean the archive is good on my site, Am I right ?
so which one is important ? or which one do I care about ? I just looked on articles said" robots and from any search engines" so thats mean the archive is good on my site, Am I right ?
tajhay Well-known member Feb 13, 2015 #4 macara said: so which one is important ? or which one do I care about ? Click to expand... You care about both. Guests are in most cases people viewing the website who arent registered. Robots are generally search engines or other sites crawling through your website. If you dont want people seeing your forum, than i guess you dont care about either.
macara said: so which one is important ? or which one do I care about ? Click to expand... You care about both. Guests are in most cases people viewing the website who arent registered. Robots are generally search engines or other sites crawling through your website. If you dont want people seeing your forum, than i guess you dont care about either.