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

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.

even i face the same thing , plz any solutions appreciated

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

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

[B]}[/B]

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!

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....

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

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.

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?

Is there someone can help me?

thank you!

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