Is AWStats blocking search engines from crawling my site?

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4:29 am on Apr 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

I installed AWStats but want my website to appear on search engine, not sure if it is blocking it. If so, how do I unblock them?

8:06 am on Apr 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

No analytics package should stop any search engine crawler from doing what it is meant to.

11:27 am on Apr 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

AWStats does identify and detect robot behavior, but I'm not sure if it blocks them.

5:44 am on Apr 18, 2010 (gmt 0)

It doesn't count search engines bots towards your stats. It only looks at the log files I beleive, so I don't think it even has that capability.

12:42 pm on Apr 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

Indeed, AWstats only analyses log files and does not contain any feature to block clients.