Google Bot (Spyder) increases Products Viewed - what to do?

[bigbadbob]

There must be a way to stop the Google bot from increasing my Products viewed count. I am only interested in what "real" people are looking at, not what the Bot (Spyder) is scanning to index. Of course, I love the Bot indexing all my stuff, but how can we stop it from increasing the Products Viewed Count?

Prevent Spider Sessions = true

No session number shows when the Spyder is on the site, but is still counted as a "visitor" in the products viewed.

Any ideas would be great.

[kssinfo]

even i face the same thing , plz any solutions appreciated

[DrByte]

You could try editing /includes/modules/pages/product_info/main_template_vars.php and change this:

    $sql = "update " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . "
            set        products_viewed = products_viewed+1
            where      products_id = '" . (int)$_GET['products_id'] . "'
            and        language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "'";

    $res = $db->Execute($sql);

to this:

if ($spider_flag == false) {
    $sql = "update " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . "
            set        products_viewed = products_viewed+1
            where      products_id = '" . (int)$_GET['products_id'] . "'
            and        language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "'";

    $res = $db->Execute($sql);
}

[bigbadbob]

The fix worked!! Caught the bot and waited until it was looking at a particular item. When it got done I checked the Products Viewed and it wasn't there!

Great idea, why didn't think of that? ha ha ha - You are the Code Guru, DrByte.

Thanks a million!

[craftthefuture]

I'd like to add on to your question. Are the 'products veiwed' counts including me? I haven't been able to find info on this and/or a how-to on filtering out my IP address so my reports aren't inflated....

[afo]

As far as I know the 'products viewed' counts are a cumulative total of every hit to the product including spiders and yourself.

[wwwursa]

Is there anyway of configuring the Products Viewed report from not including my IP address in the figures?

Saw same post in 2007 but no replies.

[mybiz9999]

Does the 'Product viewed' report include the views by google robot?

I mean this report,Admin-Reports-Product viewed


I got hundreds of views of each products, but zero sales.

So I think the views were made by robot, isn't it?

[mybiz9999]

Is there someone can help me?

thank you!

[win8win]

yes,what you guess is right,including robot's visit