I sell clicks on my well ranking site to related sites.
My customers know that this is all they get, and that I have measures so that my links to them are not counted in the SE. I'm not scamming them.
At the moment I use a CGI click tracker which until now hasn't let the spider through, but now I see that my customers are ranked right next to me, and for the first time they show 20+ backlinks from me.
Any ideas?
thanks
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gmac17
, Feb 26 2004 06:40 PM
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Posted 26 February 2004 - 06:44 PM
You could use javascript to make the links, then they won't get crawled.
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Posted 26 February 2004 - 08:54 PM
How bout an image map for the links. That pretty much well stuffs everything as well????????
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Posted 26 February 2004 - 09:04 PM
Search engines can and do follow image maps.
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Posted 26 February 2004 - 09:17 PM
What sort of redirection header does your CGI click tracker serve up?
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 01:42 AM
uummmm???? Thought they didn't like them scottie and most major SE's skip them.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 02:23 AM
Googlebot, Slurp, fast and some more top crawlers do follow hotspots on the image(image maps), search engines dont like image maps will be a old story now, I have seen this happen a lot of times,
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 05:24 AM
Well, you learn something new every day. That is mine for the day.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 05:45 AM
ive a sneaky suspicion that spiders can follow javascript links as well.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 06:42 AM
Google can now follow at least some use of CGI links as well - it's spidered significant portions of the Yahoo! directory, which modifies all of its links with CGI redirects.
It's actually becoming a lot harder to hide links from Google and co.
It's actually becoming a lot harder to hide links from Google and co.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 06:47 AM
You could always use your robots.txt file to block the SEs from visiting the page.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 07:00 AM
Yes, as far as I know Google can index javascript that contains the complete url as Google will read it as normal text. If the js is in a external file though I doubt that Google will index it.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 07:41 AM
If the js is in a external file though I doubt that Google will index it.
We tested this on a site and Google had no problems accessing and indexing pages that were linked to from JavaScript links held in an external .js file.
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Posted 27 February 2004 - 07:46 AM
OK then, put the external file in a file blocked by the robot.txt!
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