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Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
also, livejournal has a option to keep journal entries hidden from spiders.
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I have no idea what spiders are, and I can't see that mentioned anywhere - could point it out to me (Note: I'm on a basic account, because I don't want to risk having to pay for a subcription).
Spiders are programs used by search engine companies, which are programmed to crawl throughout the pages on the internet by following links from page to page, and to index what it finds for search results. The idea is that once a spider from Google (for example) accesses your blog, the address and content will be indexed for future searches.