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Old Support Topics - Ad Bing To Bots List?

batman [ Sat 02 Apr, 2011 15:59 ]
Post subject: Ad Bing To Bots List?

Does anybody know the settings to ad Bing to the bots list?

TheSteffen [ Sat 02 Apr, 2011 18:04 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

I think you can change in ACP -> Configuration -> Spider / Bots
MSN to Bing

Because Bing is the replacement of MSNbot
But I am not sure about the IP adresses

batman [ Sat 02 Apr, 2011 19:33 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

TheSteffen wrote: [View Post]
I think you can change in ACP -> Configuration -> Spider / Bots
MSN to Bing

Because Bing is the replacement of MSNbot
But I am not sure about the IP adresses

Thanks for your reply :wink:
I had put in what I thought and they are crawling the site already, below is what I put in the fields.
Name Bing
Colour Bing
Agent Bing.com
IP 65.55.175.254

The counter is at 42 already :)

TheSteffen [ Sat 02 Apr, 2011 20:35 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

I think they have mor than 1 IP adress, maybe this one too 65.52.110.36

This is the net range of Microsoft 65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255
But I am not sure about the adresses you should also insert

tormentor [ Sun 03 Apr, 2011 02:08 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

Since I don't need to be very accurate in detecting bots, I left the IP part blank (I don't care if any user/guest changes their agent to the one of a bot) and added "bingbot" as the agent.

I've also added mini-smiles that personalize the "character" of each bot (Google has googles etc.) because on my place we joke often on the presence of the bots :mrorange:

You can see what I mean on the "who is online" module or page of my site.

KugeLSichA [ Sun 03 Apr, 2011 15:38 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

batman wrote: [View Post]
Does anybody know the settings to ad Bing to the bots list?

Name: MSN
Colour: MSN
Agent: msnbot/
IP:

Name: Bing
Colour: Bing
Agent: bingbot/
IP:

These are my entries... because MSN Bot is still crawling sometimes... (can also be a not valid useragent, i´m not sure)

Mighty Gorgon [ Sun 03 Apr, 2011 23:29 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

Thanks for reporting, I'll add it.

batman [ Mon 04 Apr, 2011 03:39 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

KugeLSichA wrote: [View Post]
batman wrote: [View Post]
Does anybody know the settings to ad Bing to the bots list?

Name: MSN
Colour: MSN
Agent: msnbot/
IP:

Name: Bing
Colour: Bing
Agent: bingbot/
IP:

These are my entries... because MSN Bot is still crawling sometimes... (can also be a not valid useragent, i´m not sure)

Yeh I have MSN on a lot too several times a day, I only put the bing one in yesterday afternoon and is now at 260+ on the counter :)

batman [ Tue 05 Apr, 2011 17:56 ]
Post subject: Re: Ad Bing To Bots List?

Microsoft may have plans to stop using the MSN one, but I don't think its been axed just yet as I'm getting it still crawling my site several times a day and sometimes on at the same time as the Bing.bot
That said I guess if they are using the same IP range as with Bing it could actually now be Bing?