Click counter to ignore traffic from search bots

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

I have a click counter on my site that...well, counts the number of clicks a link gets on the frontpage.  It's a good system, but it's got a few flaws, an example being that it counts "clicks" from search engines and crawlers.  Since the most common of these is Google, I'd like to start by ignoring clicks from Googlebot.  I still want to redirect the bot like normal, I just don't want to count it's access of the click counter URL.  How could I go about doing that?  I'm having a hard time figuring out what Useragent or IP range Google uses.

[GKWelding]

code for your click counter might help? without seeing your code the below is just a suggestion.

 

if(!eregi("Googlebot",$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){
   {code for doing count}
}

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

My bad, I actually figured it out shortly after posting this.  Basically I just made an array of useragent strings from common search engines and crawlers, then did something like this:

 

$query = (in_array($useragent, $disallow)) ? "" : "[query for +1 click]";
mysql_query($query);

 

It works, and I can add new useragents to the array any time I want, which helps make it versatile.