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Thread: Yahoo Crawler & Anon Customers

  1. 11-30-2009, 08:08 AM #1
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    Default Yahoo Crawler & Anon Customers

    We are getting a lot of "# Anon Customers" showing up in the Statistics, so I went to look at the Customer table, and it had a LOT of blank entires which have the IP of the host "b3090871.crawl.yahoo.net"

    Why is a crawler showing up as a customer, and is there something we have to do to disable this? We can't just let it continue, or it will take over the table.
  2. 11-30-2009, 12:59 PM #2
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    The crawler's just hitting a link that does something that we have to create a record in the DB for - add to cart, select a locale, visit the wishlist, etc. It doesn't really hurt anything but if you want to remove that you can add in some simple code to not write those entries, or even just a DB trigger to clear them out periodically.
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