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Vote for the Best Tattoo - Neil Patel vs. IncrediBILL http://tinyurl.com/4fnj53
Dude, my fans are lovers, not fighters!
... and I've got the used condoms to prove it!
Story: The SEOmoz Linkscape Ghost
I'm 100% positive that the attempts to access my site came from DotBot because I feed back tracking data.
Did all of Linkscapes data come from DotBot?
No clue, I can only comment on my tracking data from my own sites.
MajesticSEO on their site shows different tracking data, which indicates Majestic12 did the crawling for my data fed back to their site.
Story: The SEOmoz Linkscape Ghost
I think you missed my post on WMW where I clearly called out the user agent used to crawl my site which neatly ties back to them and it certainly wasn't Yahoo, it was DotBot, also based in Seattle.
There could be more things in play, but I didn't look any further.
Story: The SEOmoz Linkscape Ghost
@LtDraper - Google shares the wealth in terms of traffic that you can monetize and AdSense revenue sharing which is far from this parasitic behavior.
Another tat thread?
Ah well, Neil's tat can't hold up to this http://tinyurl.com/4fnj53
I saw something back in march from IP 209.40.116.200 calling itself "SEOmoz-bot" and that IP is on the same host as seomoz.org. If in fact that was it, it didn't get a single page so nothing my sites link out to were counted in this map.
John mentioned MajesticSEO and I was thinking that maybe they just partnered up with Majestic for this crawl data.
However, if it's stealth, it will be found.
@danthies - most webmasters don't have half a brain nor know what's crawling, nor have the tools to stop it if they did, so if you want to scour the net for data it will be mostly uninhibited.
I'm still thinking they bought this data...
@NickWilsdon, blocking all spiders won't stop IBLs from being indexed, but will stop OBLs.
Besides, blocking visible spiders doesn't block stealth spiders which is an art form all of it's own.
I'm still betting this data was purchased from someone like MajesticSEO, which even obeying robots.txt would still have all your IBLs or all your data prior to the installation of a block in robots.txt.
Hard to say, if they crawl, we will find them.
Just ask Picscout...
Teaser news:
I think I've identified the source of the crawls and the user agent.
Film @ 11
@Dan - UA may be found!
I posted my research:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/3759661.htm
Also, check out this connection:
http://www.robtex.com/ip/208.115.111.242.html
See that Seomoz-Crawl1?
Hmmm...
@johnandrews - if a crawler did something designed to bypass reasonable site security, which mine is unreasonably tight, that it's possible it's not legal, at least in California where my site resides.
http://incredibill.blogspot.com/2006/11/legality-of-stealth-robots_116474846285292987.html
If it were me, I would cough up a user agent and IP addresses real fast just to avoid potential issues such as these.
Finally, after all this time waiting, a good article with something I could use!
Nicely done.
Maybe they'll give the blog to someone with a Y chromosone this time.
Oh good, you get banned from Digg and run right over and start self-promoting on Sphinn as fast as possible.
Wonder why Digg banned you, it's really a mystery...
[Mod: Bill is referring to a rather nasty linkdrop to a porn site, that was placed above and has since been deleted]
OK, my comment makes no sense now because someone deleted the post before mine.
If you're in the US, small claims court is your friend. It's cheap, no lawyers involved, and most people settle right away once they know it's serious. Forget online reputations, most people don't want a judgement against them screwing up their credit.
Too funny as I was laughed at for locking down my sites years ago for SEO purposes and more.
Now it's come full circle and the big SEOs are finally admitting what many webmasters already knew. that it's a big problem.
Problem with tools like the FireWall Script is it's based on rules to eliminate things, the blacklisting method, which means it's easy to adapt around the rules. Whitelisting is still the best way to go along with software that monitors and adapts to online behavior without waiting for someone to make up a rule. By the time the rules are created the damage is already done to your site so having a software sentinel is always best.
However, what they have is better than nothing.
Good luck with it!
Oh look, the X chromosones are already trying to silence me with minus votes.
When did being testosterone charged deserve a minus vote?
Oh give me a break!
Both articles written by women without the voice of any proud tissue toting monkey spanking male to weigh on on their estrogen biased findings.
Sorry, I would elaborate more but my porn movie just buffered up and it's tissue time.
Didn't anyone tell you 13 was an unlucky number and leads to a Google penalty?
You forgot to tell us which dysfunctional category you think you fit in, I think we all know, but it would be more fun to hear it from the horse's mouth.
Story: The Neil Patel Tattoo – The Ultimate Sign of Success