Yahoo bots crawling my forums...

[Bones1960]

Hi, and Happy new year to all.
I;m currently running a TP/SMF forum with over 900 members.
I have noticed the presence of an IP address constantly on site,
Guest  (74.6.*.*) which tends to skew the stats for onboard member
participation, since it shows up so often in my logs.
I identified this (I think) as a yahoo bot or bots, is there a way I can
discourage this bot from constantly hitting my site? they log in at two minutes
apart. I have added a ban of the ip range IP [74.6.*.*] and aparently they can
only view the forum front page.
Thanks in advance for your help
:coolsmiley:
Bones

[MazdaClubTR]

You can use robots.txt or hosting control panel to completely deny the IP range..

[Zetan]

This really has nothing to do with Tinyportal to be honest. There are many threads at SMF about .htaccess and robots.txt

[Bones1960]

ok, guess i;ll go over there.

[Zetan]

You might want to try Google too. Search for robots.txt and you'll find information regarding where bots can hang out.