"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96485FE81CDD6castleamber@130.133.1.4...
> Adam Davies wrote:
>
>> In article <Xns9647B908A4AD8castleamber@130.133.1.4>,
>> john@castleamber.com says...
>>> Adam Davies wrote:
>>>
>>> > we have just had a module added to our site so that we can see what
>>> > items are added to basket but the customer does not follow through
>>> > to checkout.
>>> > What i've noticed is that every 5-7 minutes the IP 64.242.88.10 is
>>> > adding products to basket.
>>> > I've traced the IP back and it's coming from looksmart. I never
>>> > knew that crawlers could add to basket I thought they just followed
>>> > links.
>>>
>>> Following a link could mean adding something to a basket :-D.
>>>
>>>
>> Well i thought that but the add to basket is javascript rather than a
>> direct link , so it shouldnt really be able to do what it's doing ( I
>> could be wrong)
>
> AFAIK Google is able to pick up some links in JavaScript, e.g.:
>
> onclick="window.open('http://example.com')" might be followed.
>
> If you have constructions like that, you could try to make it "harder"
> for bots, since they don't fully interpret JS (for now, and I doubt they
> ever will). For example, call a function in onclick without an URL as
> parameter.
>
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Why not just the basket link in your robots.txt file as one not to be
accessed