[jira] Commented: (ROL-1145) Roller calendar is spider trap

["Ceri Davies (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ceri Davies commented on ROL-1145:
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This looks like it's been implemented; e.g the "back" button at http://blogs.cf.ac.uk/ceri only goes back as far as the earliest post.

> Roller calendar is spider trap
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ROL-1145
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/roller/browse/ROL-1145
>             Project: Roller
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Macros
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Anil Gangolli
>            Assignee: Roller Unassigned
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Filed based on the following e-mail message.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Trygve Lie" <tr...@hotmail.com>
> To: <ro...@incubator.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 3:55 AM
> Subject: Spider trap in Roller's calendar
> > Hi
> > 
> > The calendar in Roller can cause a small problem for search engine spiders 
> > since it's possible to page backwards in dates by the calendar. It's 
> > actually possible to page pack to the year zero...
> > Ex: http://rollerweblogger.org/page/roller/000104
> > 
> > A spider hitting such a "trap" will just continue to page backwards until it 
> > "gets tired".
> > 
> > There are two dangerous problems with this:
> > - This can cause unnecessary stress on the server running Roller (ex; Yahoos 
> > spider make big slurps and do actually not consider if the server can handle 
> > it or not).
> > - At some point the spider will "get tired" because such paging will 
> > generate a lot of similar pages (when there are no content all pages will be 
> > similar) and the spider will then mark the site as "possible spam" due to 
> > all the similar pages.
> > 
> > I would like to suggest that there might be added a small check which makes 
> > the backward paging in the calendar only go back to when the first post was 
> > made in the blog. This would cause the calendar to page back to the month 
> > when the first post was added to the blog. To be able to page beyond that 
> > month does not have any actual interest.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Trygve Lie
> > 
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