ok stupid question
 

what are "spiders"? It seems there are always "spiders" viewing the forum. Is that how we get all the "new members" who aren't really there?

Where do you see spiders girl... what can you see, that i cant :confused:

if you click on "users" on the home page. It show everyone that is viewing the site. There are usually several there.

"online users" sorry

Oh, you mean the guests? Hmm... i wish they would knock, and come in to introduce themselves.

I've never clicked on that before. I think that's how we always seem to get ads that are close to what the topic is about.

yes they are always listed as "google spider" or "yahoo spider" & me too :rolleyes:

Ahhhh now i know what you talking about. ;)

I didn't know you could click on that and see spiders. It also shows you what everyone on the forum is doing. Wow.

I think "spiders" are just the search engine's way of getting their information. For example, if someone searches google for "woman forum" they are able to see this site because a spider has been here and collected the information and added it to the search engine's database. It probably does that for each new thread. Test it out. Copy a sentence completely, put it in quotes and then search google and it will come up with the exact page you took the quote from.

Yes, thats right :)

ohhh ok thanks :)

No problem.

Learning something new everyday!!!

Yep Janet so true.. I didn't know any of this... DUH! LOL

I didn't either so I'm going to go and check it out.

lol Good I don't feel so bad since I'm not the only one who didn't know. :)