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May 13, 2012 at 7:59 am #134456

In reply to: Robots.txt removal

jonazzjon
Member

google could not crawl my site, it says “we were inable to access your robots.txt”

May 12, 2012 at 7:27 pm #29360

Topic: Request: Secured Profiles Option

in group forum Requests & Feedback

energynet
Participant

It would be great if there were a way to keep prying eyes away from profiles and activity streams. I’m noticing that a number of bots as well as live spam artists are looking at profiles and activity streams of my bp users, and especially mine as the admin.

Just as Facebook allows a member to hide their profiles and activity from the general public so that only friends can see what they are doing, this same option is urgently needed. That is its already available and I’ve not noticed how to use it.

May 12, 2012 at 6:38 pm #134403

In reply to: Robots.txt removal

meg@info
Participant

why you want to remove robot.txt file ?

May 12, 2012 at 6:22 pm #29357

Topic: Robots.txt removal

in group forum Third Party Plugins

jonazzjon
Member

Hi, is it possible to remove a robot.txt file using one of the available plugins. If yes how,,,,Thankz

April 18, 2012 at 2:48 pm #133181

In reply to: [Resolved] Profile fields visible even to anonymous

truden
Participant

Thank you for the advise, @neiloughton.

I know that the plugin can restrict from all and allow only friends, but best for our web site is to show information to all registered users and hide it from anonymous and bots
People are searching in our web site for o-negative blood donors and after they register, they should be able to see the information without becoming friends.
It is a matter of urgency and the minutes count.

I know the plugin which you suggest, but that doesn’t work with our type of community.

April 4, 2012 at 3:05 pm #28658

Topic: Work-in-progress Fitness Health – LifeStyleNote.com please comment!

in forum Showcase

denzuke76
Member

Website: http://www.LifeStyleNote.com
About: “A place for getting info, sharing personal experiences, achieving your health fitness lifestyle results”.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/LifeStyleNote/201789166548445
Status: work-in-progress but live

Please feel free to comment, suggestion, all welcome. Currently many “fake users” keep signing up and post junk. How to prevent or minimise such bots/users?

March 31, 2012 at 6:45 pm #132194

In reply to: Still getting spammers!! HELP!

modemlooper
Moderator

You need to change the register slug. Pick something unique. Ex. http://www.mommychats.com/join-mommy-chats

This only blocks bots, people are getting paid pennies to sign up to sites so you can’t really block real people.

If you can, look at server logs to see a pattern for spam. Then block ip or emails. I would block yahoo emails, they are a spam haven. You could also limit to Facebook login only.

March 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm #23670

Topic: Still getting spammers!! HELP!

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

Tina
Participant

I have been trying to get rid of (or greatly eliminate) my spammer problem…have installed these plugins:
Buddypress Humanity
Really Simple Captcha
Si Captcha Anti-Spam
Stop Spammer Registrations

And I’m STILL getting spammers! I do currently have 2 fields on my registration form that are supposed to guard against spam…you can see it at http://www.mommychats.com I THINK I have them configured right…But I am still getting people joining that then message me with garbage like this:
“Hello
I saw your profile today and it was so good to me.u know that i am interested to be a friend first.i also believe that coming to you will be a probability of meeting that very love that has been lacking in my entire life. please i will like you to contact me direct to my e-mail address, (grceamslu@yahoo.com) i dont know the posebility of remaing in forum for long time,i will give you a full introduction of my self with my pictures ok. i will be waiting for your mail to my e-mail adsdress(grceamslu@yahoo.com) as you know
there is no age,race,colour n religion bar when it comes to true love,
cares Grace.”

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the problem that these freaks that post this sort of stuff are actual PEOPLE, and not spambots? Is there ANY way to guard against this sort of things? Oh I’m SOOO frustrated! My members are getting this sort of message as well and I don’t want them to leave me in droves because of this!

Any tips? I cannot be the only one dealing with this! Sigh!

Tina

March 27, 2012 at 10:48 pm #28536

Topic: Is there a captcha plugin for buddypress

in forum Creating & Extending

ReginaldTerrell
Member

Hi, spammers/robots keep signing up for my site, is there a plugin that ads a captcha to the register page.

March 5, 2012 at 11:43 pm #130922

In reply to: BuddyPress group creation broken

Jacob Schweitzer
Participant

I tried the bp-default theme, I’m not using any other BuddyPress plugins.

Found a solution – the problem is a cookie set by BuddyPress that isn’t changing correctly or has the wrong expiration time.

Line 130 of bp-groups-actions.php (in the bp-groups folder):
setcookie( ‘bp_new_group_id’, $bp->groups->new_group_id, time()+60*60*24, COOKIEPATH );

I commented this line out. You could also change the time to a shorter time so bots don’t create groups, is that why this is in there? As it is now, this cookie prevents anyone from creating more than 1 group per 24 hours. Why?

February 23, 2012 at 12:24 am #130288

In reply to: Buddypress Spammers……

Armin100
Member

There should be some other spam databases that hold information about email addresses/ip-addresses that are potentially spam bots, so it wouldn’t prevent them from registering. If there isn’t, I don’t know whether if buddypress should create its own to control this targeted spam.

February 21, 2012 at 12:12 am #130144

In reply to: Buddypress Spammers……

Armin100
Member

Hi Paul, thank you for your response. I’ve noticed that you have been working on a plugin for combining Akismet with Buddypress Activity stream. Akismet is a great software which does actually work, protected my blog from 1,500 spam comments. However, it should not be just limited to the activity stream, as these bots are resorting to creating groups for their spam. Also, is it possible to combine it with user registrations as well? So when continuous spam is detected by Akismet from the same user, that user is automatically banned or deleted (up to the user).

Thank you,
Armin

February 20, 2012 at 6:08 pm #27783

Topic: Buddypress Spammers……

in group forum Requests & Feedback

Armin100
Member

Hi, I’ve been trying to combat buddypress spam for about 5 months now. Bots have been registering accounts, making user groups on buddypress. I have setup capatcha, and an extra layer of security question, but they are still able to register accounts. I even have email verification as well as IP Ban. I am not going to moderate new user accounts as it is not a good practice for growing site.

Please add some type of protection to your plugin to prevent these bots from creating spam accounts and spamming new user groups.

December 18, 2011 at 2:47 am #126551

In reply to: Buddypress Robots.txt, Indexing, Sitemap Generator and other SEO things…

aces
Participant

I don’t know of a better solution, hopefully someone else can suggest something…

December 17, 2011 at 11:00 pm #126547

In reply to: Buddypress Robots.txt, Indexing, Sitemap Generator and other SEO things…

jordash
Participant

@aces That way you would have to add each page 1 at a time, is there a way to do it automatically. (My Forum’s have thousands of pages so adding them individually is pretty much impossible.)

December 16, 2011 at 2:32 pm #126467

In reply to: Buddypress Robots.txt, Indexing, Sitemap Generator and other SEO things…

aces
Participant

Yes with Google XML Sitemaps plugin v 3.2.6 on Wp 3.2.1 and Bp 1.5.1

The third panel down in the centre column ‘Additional Pages’ > Add new page

December 16, 2011 at 12:47 am #126446

In reply to: Buddypress Robots.txt, Indexing, Sitemap Generator and other SEO things…

jordash
Participant

@aces

I tested out that plugin, I couldn’t see any options to add in my forums and stuff to the XML file in the settings page, does this still work?

December 13, 2011 at 11:11 am #126187

In reply to: Buddypress is not SEO friendly

nanchante2
Member

it has nothing to do with privacy, it is about not getting duplicate content indexed.
It’s true, the default install of BP is SEO suicide.

You need to craft your robots.txt file as well as use seopress.

One feature that seems to be lacking is the display of page numbers in meta title and desc on paginated pages.

Still trying to sort that one.

December 1, 2011 at 6:47 am #125383

In reply to: Make activity items non-searchable

modemlooper
Moderator

You can do this via robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow: /activity/

November 30, 2011 at 10:45 pm #26029

Topic: Make activity items non-searchable

in group forum Requests & Feedback

Erlend
Participant

I think it’d be good to have the option to prevent activity items from turning up in search results, both locally and globally. When I google content in my own site, activity items, i.e. duplicate content, tends to show up before the real content does. This means extra button clicks for the user, and possibly disgruntled search bots.

November 28, 2011 at 1:34 am #125116

In reply to: BuddyPress robots.txt

r-a-y
Keymaster

This isn’t really a BP-related question, but a robots.txt file is usually not necessary; it’s only needed if you want to block certain bots from your site.

More info here:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156449

Also make sure you’re not already using a robots.txt plugin like:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/irobotstxt-seo/

November 27, 2011 at 8:32 pm #25949

Topic: BuddyPress robots.txt

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

deight
Member

Hello everyone,

I am running a website with the latest version of BP and WP 3.2.1.

When I submit my website to Google, it shows that my robots.txt is basically empty:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

At the same time there is about 40 pages restricted through robots.txt.

1) How do I edit robots.txt on my blog (I can’t find it in the website folder when I log into File Directory through my hosting).

2) Would you also share examples of robots.txt which would work good with BP.

3) I also want to allow comment indexing on my website. Is this the code to do it?
Allow: */comments/

November 24, 2011 at 3:35 pm #124950

In reply to: Has Anybody Found a Definitive Solution for Spammer-Splogger Registrations?

David100351
Member

The problem with recapcha is that armies of sad poor people are filling out spam registrations correctly and then passing them over to bots to do the dirty work.

November 13, 2011 at 7:23 am #124294

In reply to: Fraudulent members

@mercime
Participant

Know that when you open up your registration for anyone on single WP or WP multisite, whether you have BuddyPress or not, you will get spammers and sploggers. Only “closed” or by-invitation-only sites have escaped this curse completely.

There have been different solutions using plugins and techniques to prevent this but these bots and humans spammers/sploggers are relentless. Search online and you’ll get many answers/methods
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/fighting-splogs/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/what-do-your-spam-signups-look-like/
http://www.wptavern.com/forum/wordpress-mu-multisite/2123-anti-spam-plugins.html
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anti-spam-for-multi-site-educationnon-profit?replies=7
http://wpfeed.com/2011/01/complete-list-of-anti-spam-plugins-and-solutions-for-wordpress/
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wangguard/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anti-splog/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-anti-spam/?topic_id=20669
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moderate-new-blogs/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/
http://itscblog.tamu.edu/bad-behavior-wpmu-2-1-15-released/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/

October 2, 2011 at 1:20 am #121807

In reply to: Buddypress is not SEO friendly

modemlooper
Moderator

You actually do not want your member pages and their status updates to be cached by google because of privacy. There is no privacy settings in BuddyPress and the last thing your users want is a site owner forcing their updates to search bots.
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