SMF2.0:Search engines: Difference between revisions

From this area you can decide in what detail you wish to track search engines as they index your forum as well as review search engine logs. To view this area, you must enable it via the Core Features page. Search Engines administration may be found under the "Members" button of the Administration Center menu (or under the "Members" heading if the Administration Center sidebar is used).

Stats

view statistics that pertain to search engines indexing your forum.

Spider Log

Spider log (term)

Viewing Search Engine Logs

Spider - The name of the spider that indexed your forum, as according to the name given in the Spiders section.
Time - The date and time when the spider viewed the page for the current page view it is associated with.
Viewing - The section the spider was viewing during the current page view. This will show Disabled if the Search Engine Tracking is set to High instead of Very High.

Delete Entries

At the bottom of this page is an input value that allows you to delete all search engine logs older than the specified amount of days. Once you enter in a numeric value, select the Delete button to go through with the pruning of the logs older than the specified amount of days.

Spiders

Lists all the spiders added to your forum that you are tracking the indexing of. You can view some details about the spider as well as add new ones and delete existing ones.

Settings

You can change settings for spider tracking from this page. Note, if you wish to enable automatic pruning of the hit logs you can set this up from logs#Log_Pruning

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