GUEST READERS

[ree123]

Attention all guest readers.

If you navigate to the forum to read, but do not log on, then you are listed as a guest, even if you are a forum member or a club member.

I have been watching and tracking and have figured out we have close to 100 of you doing this, seems like every few days.
Also,many of you are logging on more than once per day.

I, as your new President, have a deep desire to see this club and forum continue and grow and become even much more fun than ever before, but I need your help !!! I need for you to do more than read !!! I need for you to participate in conversation here, I need for you to try to come to the swap/meets even if you bring nothing but yourself and no fish or fish things to swap, and I need for you to join the club. If our club dosen't show some growth it may be on a course for death. Everyone's help is needed.
And btw, there is no dumb question or dumb answers here. We all have opinions and experience. Please join and/or log on and share !!!

I am in the process of e-mailing our members that I know are listed, many of whom have not logged on in many months. I want to hear why they are no longer reading, talking, and participating. But to you, the visitors, THANK YOU for reading and being interested !!!!!! But...................we need your participation !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please.

Thanks. Rick

[ree123]

bump. please read.
we really want you to join whoever you might be. :=)

[signde]

Are you sure it is not search bots like google and the like? My forum gets a lot of those per day.

[jon carman]

How do you find out?

[ree123]

signde. like Jon ask. How would on find out ?
There are a lot of them.

[Jess Puff]

I'm not sure if this will mean anything to anyone but I did a quick google search on the subject. Below, is the discussion I came across.

stackoverflow.com/questions/4090035/identyfying-web-crawler-search-engine-bots-like-google-yahoo-etc-using-basic

This discussion explains it a little clearer...
www.knowledgesutra.com/forums/topic/59091-determine-if-visitor-is-legit-or-a-bot/

Hope this helps some.

[jon carman]

If that is what is happening... What a bummer

[signde]

May 4, 2011 8:41:30 GMT -6 @ree123 said:

signde. like Jon ask. How would on find out ?
There are a lot of them.

my forum software labels them for me but it is a product i paid for called invision power board. i don't know if proboards will do this as i have never seen the admin console.

i can guarantee at least some of the traffic are webcrawlers. on my forum it is a significant amount of traffic. it is basically how google/bing/whatever search engine indexes the content of your website.

in my forum instead of saying Guest it actually matches up most of them to the respective search engine. google is almost always on there.

[signde]

i perused the proboards support forums. what i found indicated proboards doesn't classify bots, but they soon plan to in their next version.

support.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=support&thread=380809&page=1#4334879