Googlebot is too trigger happy

jarmake

Joined: 2006-08-29
Posts: 9
Posted: Tue, 2010-03-09 11:58

Hi,
I got my gallery up and running, now when I look at the access.log of my webhost I get following lines:

GET /english/photos.php?g2_language=en&g2_view=rating.RatingCallback&g2_command=rate&g2_itemId=2685&g2_rating=5&g2_authToken=__AUTHTOKEN__ HTTP/1.1"

Does this mean that Googlebot is hitting the rating links of my images? How do I tell Googlebot not to?
I have embedded the Gallery and I have put a meta robot tags to embedded page's head section with values "index, nofollow". Does that work with dynamic requests as I would imagine it should?
Seems that Googlebot is going to cause a lot of unnecessary traffic if this is the case.
TIA for any advice on this.
 
nivekiam
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Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 16504
Posted: Tue, 2010-03-09 18:41
Quote:
GET /english/photos.php?g2_language=en&g2_view=rating.RatingCallback&g2_command=rate&g2_itemId=2685&g2_rating=5&g2_authToken=__AUTHTOKEN__ HTTP/1.1"

I don't see anything there that mentions google bot or any other agent string. Gallery does have cases put into place to the popular search engine crawlers, google, yahoo, microsoft's, etc don't count views, increase ratings, etc.
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jarmake

Joined: 2006-08-29
Posts: 9
Posted: Tue, 2010-03-09 19:05

Ah, I am sorry the logline didn't paste as complete, here is an example of full logline:

66.249.65.87 - - [07/Mar/2010:08:07:27 +0200] "GET /english/photos.php?g2_language=en&g2_view=rating.RatingCallback&g2_command=rate&g2_itemId=2305&g2_rating=2&g2_authToken=__AUTHTOKEN__ HTTP/1.1" 200 120 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)