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  • emmanuelle
    Confirmed User
    • Mar 2003
    • 3662

    #1

    errors found in my stats

    I seem to be finding a lot of 404 errors in my stats, for /robots.txt and for /favicon.ico

    Can somebody please explain to me what these do and why I should have them?
    {need coffee}

    thanks!
  • amph
    Confirmed User
    • Mar 2003
    • 1245

    #2
    robots.txt is a file that tells SE spiders wether or not should they index/crawl your site and what parts of it they should/shouldnt crawl

    favicon.ico is an icon that IE displays next to the entries in the bookmarks (favourites) menu

    You dont really need any of those
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    • emmanuelle
      Confirmed User
      • Mar 2003
      • 3662

      #3
      thank you

      Now why are they coming up as 404? Who is looking for them? Are they standard browser requests?

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      • amph
        Confirmed User
        • Mar 2003
        • 1245

        #4
        Read my post above, think about it for a second and you should figure out the answer
        MEATCASH PWNZ THE INTERWEB
        ____________
        ICQ:30768214
        ~~~~~~~~~

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        • Dildozer
          Confirmed User
          • Jul 2002
          • 7519

          #5
          Spiders ask for the robots.txt
          Bookmarkers ask for the favicon.ico (like when you bookmark GFY, you have the hand giving the finger in your bookmarks, that's the favicon)
          Spam link here

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