Googlebot & CSS Star Rating

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Last Of The Romans Reply #1, 19 years, 4 months ago

Hello,

i have strange problem with CSS Star Rating.
When Googlebot "check" my web-site vote in documents have CSS Star Rating...

Do you have answer how i make for removal this problem?

Thank you

palma non sine pulvere

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evan Reply #2, 19 years, 4 months ago

I’m not sure I totally understand your question. Are you saying that Googlebot is casting a vote in some sort of a ranking poll? You could either use robots.txt to lock robots out of the cast a vote page, or cast the vote using a POST form rather than a GET.

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neon_eddy Reply #3, 19 years, 1 month ago

I’m having the same issue, GoogleBot is seeing those as normal links.. so it "clicks" all the stars.. and all my pages have a 3 star rating.
I suppose the fix would be to get the agent type before running the snippet.

Oh look http://webbake.com/tutorials/php-scripts/googlebot-email-notify I happen to know of a script to detect suck a one GoogleBot. I’m not knowledgeable enough to make it happen for this snippet however.

-Cheers

~Shawn Himmelberger
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Zombie Reply #4, 18 years, 8 months ago

hi i also have this problem, does anyone know how to fix it, all my pages have got 3 star ratings!! please help someone...

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endyzer Reply #5, 18 years, 8 months ago

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

So it could be usefull to have links with rel="nofollow".

changed Code in Snippet Css StarRating

...

if (!$viewOnly) {
	$starPhArray['starRating'] = "<ul class='star-rating'>
		<li class='current-rating' style='width:" . $width . "px;'>" . $_lang['current_1'] . $currentStarValue . $_lang['current_2'] . "</li>
		<li><a href='" . $modx->makeUrl($modx->documentObject['id'], $modx->documentObject['alias'], 'starvote=1&pid=' . $docID) . "' title='" . $_lang['one_star'] . "' rel=nofollow class='one-star'>1</a></li>
		<li><a href='" . $modx->makeUrl($modx->documentObject['id'], $modx->documentObject['alias'], 'starvote=2&pid=' . $docID) . "' title='" . $_lang['two_stars'] . "' rel=nofollow class='two-stars'>2</a></li>
		<li><a href='" . $modx->makeUrl($modx->documentObject['id'], $modx->documentObject['alias'], 'starvote=3&pid=' . $docID) . "' title='" . $_lang['three_stars'] . "' rel=nofollow class='three-stars'>3</a></li>
		<li><a href='" . $modx->makeUrl($modx->documentObject['id'], $modx->documentObject['alias'], 'starvote=4&pid=' . $docID) . "' title='" . $_lang['four_stars'] . "' rel=nofollow class='four-stars'>4</a></li>
		<li><a href='" . $modx->makeUrl($modx->documentObject['id'], $modx->documentObject['alias'], 'starvote=5&pid=' . $docID) . "' title='" . $_lang['five_stars'] . "' rel=nofollow class='five-stars'>5</a></li>
	</ul>";
} else {

...

But I’m not sure if this will help. Try it and report your impressions.

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Zombie Reply #6, 18 years, 8 months ago

ok i made the code change you’ve suggested but how do i know if it’s made a difference? isn’t it google causing the problem not comment spammers??

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endyzer Reply #7, 18 years, 8 months ago

hmm. The idea was that google will not index the links => maybe no more cliks on it caused by googlebot...
just an idea..

or:
check if it’s possible to create a robots.txt rule for a defined class you put in the <a tag to exclude this for SearchEngines...

There does exist "section targeting"


for Google’s Adsense....

Maybe there does exist some similar for the SeearchBot...
otherwise I have no idea...

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endyzer Reply #8, 18 years, 8 months ago

So. I tested the rel="nofollow" on my site for 2 weeks and more... No more 100 mysterious votes or else...

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Zombie Reply #9, 18 years, 8 months ago

yeah it seems to also be working for me which is great. thanks.