dcz wrote:The funny thing on phpBB SEO is Yahoo bots comes more often than it brings visitors

You're not kidding. I don't know what's up with Yahoo's crawlers. I added this line to robots.txt so it would put less load on the server:

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User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 20

It retaliated by doubling the number of bots loitering on the site.

Yes, I think we can talk about a yahoo dance here.
It's been a month more or less now that Yahoo started to massively crawl many websites. I'm pretty sure it's going back to normal soon, even though Yahoo will always it seems crawl more massively than others.

About the crawl delay, if only yahoo was following the robots.txt better ...

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hi i downloaded the mod , bt it has instructions for FRENCH INSTALL even in the English folder???

FRENCH INSTALL :
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The French install file is located in the translations/fr/ folder of this release.

The French lang code changes are the following :

OPEN :
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language/lang_french/lang_main.php

FIND :
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did i download from wrong link?

Well, this is part of the DIY.
You off course do not need to apply the french lang code changes if you do not use it.

The english lang files code change are a bit bellow in the real install part (FIND/REPLACE etc ...).

I have installed this mod, however the daily visitor count for bots is missing:

I've been through the code, and can't see anything amiss. Any ideas?

Which php file needs to be modded to correct this?

Well I think it comes from the language code changes with your mod displaying the user online today list.

Both mods seems to be using the same entries, changed by the simple show bot mod.
It's just that the entry for guest was modded to end up with an "and" and is reused I think.

The fix would be to mod you user online list mod, to have it use different Lang keys, the phpBB original ones.

If you post a link to where it was released, I can send you the code change, must be very simple.

I can reset the language to the original phpBB version, but I can't remember the mod that added the "online today" functionality.

Can I just add a couple of lines in the language file for the simple bots mod to use (simple bots uses the "guests and", and the other mod uses the standard phpBB one)
I'd prefer it if I could get the "online today" string to show the number of bots. Currently the bots are still increasing the "guests visited today" value.

Well, the simple show bot mod is made to be simple, it does not add any SQL and it does not log bots visits.
It's only detecting the online ones, so it won't be possible to list how many bots visited your forum in the last 24 hours.

To fix your mod's output, you could replace :

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$lang['Guest_users_zero_total'] = '0 Guests and ';
$lang['Guest_users_total'] = '%d Guests and ';
$lang['Guest_user_total'] = '%d Guest and ';

With :

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$lang['Guest_users_zero_total'] = '0 Guests ';
$lang['Guest_users_total'] = '%d Guests ';
$lang['Guest_user_total'] = '%d Guest ';
$lang['Guest_users_zero_total_bots'] = '0 Guests and ';
$lang['Guest_users_total_bots'] = '%d Guests and ';
$lang['Guest_user_total_bots'] = '%d Guest and ';

in your language file, and then replace :

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   if ( $guests_online == 0 )
   {
      $l_g_user_s = $lang['Guest_users_zero_total'];
   }
   else if ( $guests_online == 1 )
   {
      $l_g_user_s = $lang['Guest_user_total'];
   }
   else
   {
      $l_g_user_s = $lang['Guest_users_total'];
   }

with :

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   if ( $guests_online == 0 )
   {
      $l_g_user_s = $lang['Guest_users_zero_total_bots'];
   }
   else if ( $guests_online == 1 )
   {
      $l_g_user_s = $lang['Guest_user_total_bots'];
   }
   else
   {
      $l_g_user_s = $lang['Guest_users_total_bots'];
   }

in includes/page_header.php.

Should fix the other mod's output.

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