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Today, we rolled out an update for Hoop.la, UBB Forum, and QuestionShark that adds two major new features:

 

1. PDF and Document Search

 

The content of uploaded documents (including PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, and more) will now be indexed, which means they will be searchable!

 

2. Search Engine Spider/Robot Throttling Option

 

Some sites get hammered by search engine robots trying to index their content, especially older sites that have lots of content.  In some cases, a high percentage of overall traffic to the site can be attributable to these search engine bots.

 

Thus, we have added a new tool to allow you to tame these bots, if necessary. If your billable page views are getting close to your plan limit, this option may come in handy.

 

On your site Control Panel's Statistics page, you'll find the new Throttling option right below your billable page view stats.  You can even see the current percentage of traffic attributable to these robots.

 

You have three choice- No Throttling (default), Standard Throttling (which limits the bots to approximately 20% of your overall page views, and Custom Throttling.

 

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Most sites will never need to use the "throttling" option, but it's a valuable option for sites that need it.

 

Please note of course that throttling search engine bots will prevent your site from being updated as often, which may negatively impact your SEO, so definitely consider the pros and cons before you enable it.

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Hi Richard-

 

Your plan has a billable page view limit (not a bandwidth limit). And if you exceed your billable page views, you will incur charges.  Thus, if you are close to exceeding your account's limit, then you may want to consider using the throttling option.

 

For questions about your specific account, please post to our support area.

Ted @ Crowdstack

I could have sworn I was told that I have to pay a charge for excess visitors or bandwidth of some kind?  It was going to appear on my bill but you said you would hold off the charges until the new feature was released and then give me the choice of the extra charges or limit the BOTS.

 

This is really confusing.  Can you confirm then that my site will have no additional charges if I DONT limit the bots on my site?

 

 

RG
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