Legacy Bot Filter Suggestion

[Ryan Hunter]

Hello I noticed my downloads are getting downloaded by Google Bots - according to the logs. I was wondering if vBDownloads Pro will add a Bot Filter for vBDownloads, to maybe enhance my site performance by preventing those Spider Bots from downloading my files.

 

[Fillip H.]

I doubt they are fully downloading the files, they are probably simply accessing the URL resource. I can add nofollow to those links in the future, though

 

[Fillip H.]

Update: This will be implemented in v2.4.5, currently scheduled to be released Monday Apr 13. I could only reliably get this to work utilising DBSEO's spider checks, so DBSEO will be required in order for this functionality to work.