Calendar playing merry hell with search engines..

Hi Guys,

First of all I LOVE the calendar, but I've just stumbled across a teeny problett!

I Don't know if anyone has hit this before, I couldn't find anything searching the forum!

When search engines hit a calendar they find thousands of pages (mostly empty) because the calendar is good till about 2037!

Has anyone come up with a "sensible" solution - like a rolling limit to how far forward and back the calendar browsing can go and stopping blank pages triggering popup's unless you're logged in?

Any Ideas?

I didn't look at the latest code on the download, but in the past, you could control the number of years in the drop down (plus or minus). The forum discussed this at this thread. See if this helps with the quantity of drop down dates.

http://codewalkers.com/forum/index....0&realm=default

Unfortunately not, changing those limits is relativly easy but it doesnt stop a bot/crawler following the forward/back a month links at the top of the page which is where I think the problem stems from since those links can run from December 1969 - January 2038, that's 25000 odd links out of the main calendar page just for starters.....

On my month view, my year drop down is limited to 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. That reduces the number of possibilites. Is this where your concern is?

No, there are links at the top of the month view page that take the displayed page back a month or forward a month. Using these links it is possible to go back to December 1969 or forward to January 2038 just by following the links on each page as it is generated - thats a range of 67 years or 804 months, each of those months has 30 ish days each of which is a link in its own right, which makes 25700 ish links!

No "human" in there right mind would follow these so far forward or back but bots and spiders aren't human!

<bot mode>
OK, so I'm a bot, I'm looking for links on a calendar for January 2006 that I can crawl, I find 31 links (for the days) that I can investigate, a link for December 2005 and a link for February 2006. Im going to follow the February link...

I'm looking for links on a calendar for February 2006 that I can crawl, I find 28 links (for the days) that I can investigate, a link for January 2006 and a link for March 2006. Im going to follow the March link...

I'm looking for links on a calendar for March 2006 that I can crawl, I find 31 links (for the days) that I can investigate, a link for February 2006 and a link for April 2006. Im going to follow the April link...

And so on all the way up to January 2038 or all the way back to December 1969
</bot mode>

Thats the problem! 8-)

Simple. and the rel=no-follow attribute to your back forward month link tags.

Why the hell didn't I think of that!

Many thanks...