On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:29:55 GMT, Adam Davies <cornhouse@hotmail.com>
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.

What's the URL for your shopping site?

>I've spoken to the guys that we employed to do our SEO and even they say
>they have never heard of such a thing.

New to me also unless it's a spiderable link to Looksmart it shouldn't
happen. I've never looked at the search engine Looksmart before, each
engine is different and though Google and the other big ones don't
follow javascript links Looksmart could (or could be experimenting).

>Has anyone else come across this before? its not a big deal apart from
>being a right royal pain in the arse as it's screwing up our stats.

Have you had any visitors from Looksmart through the 'links' they must
be following to add products to the basket?

David
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