SchweppesAle Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Hi, We're currently using an open source 3rd party Joomla extension called "Flexbanner" to display ads on our site. Unfortunately, the extension "blows" - hard. There's currently nothing in place which will prevent bots from seeing the banner urls then following them. As a deterrent I modified the code so that it displays the banners via javascript, however as of May; Google can now parse Javascript code in search of additional urls. I'm now considering the use of iframes instead. Google search seems to indicate that there are no crawlers which can follow content displayed via iframes, however I was wondering if anyone is familiar with other bots (scrapers maybe?) which would have no problem following these links. Is there a better way to do this? Maybe an online repository of all known bot User Agent/IPs which I can then store within a cache and compare against the user's? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/176878-filtering-out-bots/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchweppesAle Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Btw, the extension is open source; not trying to do anything underhanded. I just want the thing to correctly report on our statistics Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/176878-filtering-out-bots/#findComment-932656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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