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[Roller-JIRA] Assigned: (ROL-1145) Roller calendar is spider trap
[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1145?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Anil Gangolli reassigned ROL-1145:
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Assignee: Roller Unassigned (was: Anil Gangolli)
> Roller calendar is spider trap
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>
> Key: ROL-1145
> URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1145
> Project: Roller
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Macros
> Affects Versions: 2.1
> Reporter: Anil Gangolli
> Assignee: Roller Unassigned
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.1
>
>
> 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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> >
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