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BoardTracker's Koala
BoardTracker's Forum Koala

Update: BoardTracker recently replaced its spiders with Koalas. We find Koalas to be more warm and cuddly and less intimidating. Plus there are no known poisonous Koalas, so it's safer overall. We do have a problem with some of the Koalas dozing off sometimes due to excessive digestion of Eucalyptus leaves, but our engineers are working on a solution to this problem.

BoardTracker aims to bring more people to the boards and get them involved in the discussions on the forums about issues that relate to them.

Unlike other search engines, BoardTracker does not offer a cached copy of your website viewable on our system. BoardTracker only presents very short snippets of your forum threads upon search or browsing and directs traffic directly to your site and specific pages, keeping your content - yours.

BoardTracker Koalas visit the different forums at varying intervals from 20 minutes to 36 hours depending on the activity on each forum of the board - busy forums in the board will be visited more often than the less active ones.

Note: BoardTracker's Koalas is robots.txt compliant - If you do not want your board to be visited by BoardTracker and included in our search engine simply add the appropriate directives to your robots.txt file. [Details below]

If on the other hand your board is not yet included and you would like it to be, please view Add Board for details on request submission and how to expedite the process.

Please visit http://www.boardtracker.com for more details on what BoardTracker offers and to try it out for yourself!





robots.txt directives:
To remove a specific forum make sure you have the following in your robots.txt

     User-agent: BoardTracker
     Disallow: Forum=123


Note: 123 is just an example. Use your internal Forum ID#.
BoardTracker will notice that directive and will automatically remove that forum from the system.



To remove a your board entirely, make sure you have the following in your robots.txt

     User-agent: BoardTracker
     Disallow: /


BoardTracker will notice that directive and will automatically remove that your entire board from the system.


Note: BoardTracker also complies with "User-agent: *" directives.


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