Bingbot / MSNBot exception

  • Resolved braddemers

    (@braddemers)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    There’s a section in the PHP code for this plugin that allows for it to work properly with search engines:

    if ((!preg_match(‘/facebookexternalhit/si’,$ua))&&(!preg_match(‘/googlebot/si’,$ua))…

    Our website wasn’t being indexed properly by Bing/Bingbot so I think the plugin may need to be updated to allow for Bing to work properly.

    I added the following code:
    …&&(!preg_match(‘/googlebot/si’,$ua))&&(!preg_match(‘/bingbot/si’,$ua))&&(!preg_match(‘msnbot’,$ua))&&(!preg_match(‘bingbot’,$ua))&&(!preg_match(‘/msnbot/si’,$ua))..

    and our website is now being fetched properly by Bing. If anyone else is having this problem you might want to check that out. Maybe the developer can update the plugin? I’ve contacted Membee for an update as well, should it be warranted. Happy to help if anyone has any questions.

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  • Thread Starter braddemers

    (@braddemers)

    (the code above shouldn’t have the leading or trailing periods, of course, if you want to paste it into your membee-login.php file. It also has the exception for /googlebot/si so make sure you aren’t duplicating it)

    Thread Starter braddemers

    (@braddemers)

    The 1.3.0 update also resolves the issue I had above — I tested the updated plugin and things are working great. Thank you for the revision!

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