A computer program that accesses web pages for various purposes (to scrape content, to provide search engines with information about your site, etc.).
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Using rel=canonical and noindex in a 1-n partners enviroment
We sell a whole site (domain, etc) to partners that create content that is shown together at the main site. What we want to achieve is that the main site copy is the original, but the one that is ...
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Which tools can help limit maximum page view per ip to limit scrapers and bots?
I would like to prevent scrapers grabbing all my content except Google, Bing and other search engines. I Am thinking of going with Fail2ban and limiting hits from an ip maybe at around 1000 per day. ...
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Different Blocked URLS Stats in Google Webmaster
Just want to know i got different blocked urls stats at webmaster.
I blocked entire site for revamp and latest builds implementation. Here are different stats
Under Health tab> Blocked URls>2,580
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What does “all” mean in meta robots tag?
Several websites have the following meta tag aimed at search engines like Google, Bing, etc.:
<meta name="robots" content="all" />
What does it do?
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Yandex frequently replaces page names with ampersands
The Yandex spider is a frequent visitor to one of the sites I manage. On occasion it replaces the page name with two ampersands and a space. So if the page is:
/mypage.aspx?param=value
then it ...
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Which meta “robots” tag gets preference?
My wife works at a high school in Germany. I recently noticed that it's extremely hard to find that school's homepage using Google. I looked at the source code of the page and I believe I've found the ...
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Google Webmaster Central tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap
This is my robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.mydomain.org/sitemap.xml.gz
But Google Webmaster Central tells me that robots is blocking ...
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Google Bots Crawling my Site daily is this good or a bad thing?
Currently my site is being crawled by the Googlebot on a daily basis. Is a daily crawl from the Googlebot a good thing or bad thing?
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Why is BingBot causing so many 404 errors by removing letters from url's?
Since the ForceRecrawl problem went away Bing has come back with some new trends.
I'm seeing many URLs missing the last letter, or missing a few letters, and some other wired guess URLs. It also ...
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Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots
I have a site that, for regulatory reasons, may not be indexed or searched automatically. This means that we need to keep all robots away and prevent them from spidering the site.
Obviously we've had ...
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Adsense click bot is click bombing my site
I have a site that get's roughly 7,000 - 10,000 page views per day right now. Starting around 1 AM on 7/1/12 I noticed the CTR was rising dramatically. These clicks would be credited then ...
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Should I block bots from my site and why?
My logs are full of bot visitors, often from Eastern Europe and China.
The bots are identified as Ahrefs, Seznam, LSSRocketCrawler, Yandex, Sogou and so on.
Should I block these bots from my site and ...
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Menu hidden links and bots!
I want to make a menu with a list with hidden links and when the user points the menu with he mouse the links will appear, my problem is that the bots may think this as a deceiving tactic and lower my ...
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Can Google show some pages deleted six months back and blocked using Robot.txt?
If I have deleted some pages on my website six months back and blocked these pages using Robots.txt, can that non-existent page show up on Google?
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Preventing high bandwidth usage from Yandex
Although I put a row for Yandex into my robots.txt file, sometimes Yandex indexes my website aggressively. So I hard coded a part and check for user agent, and serve cached file if user agent is like ...
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How can I prevent Googlebot from indexing web service URL's?
I have a problem with googlebot and bingbot accessing our web service. We have a search application created in aspx that is integrated into a drupal website. Users perform searches based on postal ...
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Methods for keeping no-good scrapers off the site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots
I want to keep no-good scrapers (aka. bad bots) that steal content and consume bandwidth off my site. At the same time, I do ...
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Is there a way to make Alexa's ia_archiver slow down its crawling of my website?
Alexa's ia_archiver bot is the main contributor to the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" web collection, and there are advantages to having my website included in that collection. There are other ...
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Why deny access to website for msnbot/bingbot?
I've seen quite a lot of tutorials that recommend you to ban user agents containing the strings libwww-perl and msnbot. I understand why one would ban libwww-perl, it's mainly if not only used for ...
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Disadvantages of a fake phpMyAdmin honeypot that causes ip blacklisting and robots.txt disallow/exclusion of the honeypot?
I'm trying to figure out whether I should set up a honeypot system with a fake phpMyAdmin (site gets hits all the time with people spidering for insecurities with that app).
My thought was to create ...
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What dangers await if I block non-standard, non-major-usa search engine bots from my USA only website?
I noticed tons of bandwidth being used by non-USA search engine bots, so I began blocking them in an effort to save bandwidth and cpu cycles for actual users and the search engines they come from ...
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Facebook and Crawl-delay in Robots.txt?
Do Facebook's webcrawling bots (for example facebookexternalhit/*) respect the Crawl-delay: directive in robots.txt files?
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Set initial robots.txt restrictions so high, Googlebot won't even try to access the updated less strict file.
When I initially setup my blog I put the restrictions on robots.txt way too high. They were so stick that googlebot can't even access the udated less strict robots file. I've been at this problem for ...
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Ask.com Sitemap Crawler Down (for good)?
I have been using Ask.com as one of the search engines to ping my sitemap. When I went to ping my sitemap today to have my sitemap re-indexed, the website (http://submissions.ask.com/ping) says it no ...
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mod_rewrite and SEO friendliness
My website has an atypical structure and I'm not sure if this could create problems in the long run, specially for SEO positioning purposes.
I have a unique, large PHP script, and I use the Apache ...
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Number of page requests by any Bot in 5 secs
I am writing a script that will block any bot that requests page(s) for example X times in the past 5 secs. I need to find the X here. Do you guys know some approx values I can use?
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Facebook crawling [closed]
Does a normal person is allowed to crawl all the publically visible links of facebook for research purpose with the help of automated bots?
And whether there is any API provided by ...
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How to hide download file from bots? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to restrict the download of all files in a folder?
I want to make a private file available for download but not use username/password protection. I want to put the ...
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Robots.txt and “Bad” Robots
I understand robots.txt and its purpose. I have read some people saying that using a Robots.txt gives "bad" robots or robots who do not obey a robots.txt a way to access pages on your site that you do ...
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User-agent identification and SEO crawler database
I am requested to analyze the traffic log of a site. In particular I have to identify the crawlers starting from the collected user agent values.
I know there are 'trap' links that you can use to ...
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List of most common bot user-agents? [closed]
I'm trying to find a list of the most common bot user-agents (say 10 or so) but I can't find much of anything; all I'm finding is lists that contains thousands of user-agents.
All I need is the most ...
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Do or can robots cause considerable performance issues?
At work we are in a discussion with team members who seem to think bots will cause us problems relating to performance when running on our services website.
Our setup:
Lets say I have site ...
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Is browser and bot whitelisting a practical approach?
With blacklisting it takes plenty of time to monitor events to uncover undesirable behavior and then taking corrective action. I would like to avoid that daily drudgery if possible. I'm thinking ...
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Apache real time robot detection
Background
Our website is being
a. scraped - complete pages downloaded
b. spidered - complete pages and sub links followed
c. mined - specific files downloaded at high speed
by hundreds of ...
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Does searchbots index content in iframe [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO?
I have a html page that has a map of a country with lots of dots indicating location of companies through out ...
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Question about robots.txt Google shows urls are blocked
I am working on this site dealsin.us and the Google webmasters tool shows that there are about 9800+ urls blocked by robots.txt. You can view the robots.txt here I have blocked some directories which ...
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How often are sitemap.xml checked for updates by crawlers?
How often do crawlers check for updates in submitted sitemap.xml? Every hour, day, week, month, more?
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Stop bots from crawling old links with extensions
I've recently switched to MVC3 which is extension-less for the URL's, but Google and Bing have a wealth of links that they are crawling which no longer exist.
So I'm trying to find out if there is a ...
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BingPreview user agent
I'm getting several invalid requests from a "BingPreview" user agent. The complete user agent header is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b
The ...
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What is the notified-CompliancePage page?
I sometimes have bots (I assume) hitting pages such as:
/notified-CompliancePage?aHR0cDovL3d3dy5teXBpdm90cy5jb20vZGFpbHlub3Rlcw==
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How To Slow Down A Generic Bot?
There is a generic bot (only identified as 'bot*') consuming most of my bandwidth and processing power. Blocking its IP stops it but since it comes from a well-known search-engine, I'd rather slow it ...
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Does Yahoo Slurp crawl hammer a site?
A lot of robots.txt examples seem to feature Crawl-Delay for Yahoo Slurp for up to 2 hours, is this because Yahoo Slurp tends to hammer a website and increase server load?
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In User Agent strings, what does “AskTbTRL” denote?
Here are a bunch of examples:
http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/listings.asp?search=asktbtrl
I would've guessed an Ask.com-related bot, but apparently not according to their FAQ.
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Why are nonexistant files listed in the TRANSFER log?
This snippit from my apache log reflects some piece of malware casually browsing through my site for some unknown purpose.
The most puzzling thing to me is that the GET address doesn't correspond ...
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All the IPs of search engine bots?
if I want to filter out all the search engine bots for example for a script that counts users that are online is there website or a list which is allways up to date and includes the ip addresses of ...
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How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots?
Most of the bandwidth of one site is being consumed by an unidentified bot. According to AWSTATS it says:
Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*') consumed 164 GB this month.
By comparison, Googlebot ...
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Googlebot crawler: URL restricted by robots.txt - how to fix the entries in robots.txt?
I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my ...
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Does the adsense bot ever get bored?
Each time someone clicks on a page like
http://www.example.com/crazy.cgi?input=silly+banana
where the "silly banana" bit represents some arbitrary user input which changes each time, I get yet ...
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Do these IP addresses belong to robots?
When i check the traffic on my website, the top IP's have have statistics like this.
> IP Page Hits
> 91.212.x.x 7123 7123
> 91.x.x.x 249 249
These ...
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SEO: How to stop certain web-pages from “having importance” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO - Reducing significance of irrelevant kewords.
I wrote "having importance" since I do not really know the right way to say this.
I have certain pages in my site ...
