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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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 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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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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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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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 ...