WebmasterWorld Delisted from Google, MSN.. Yahoo Soon
After banning spiders from crawling its site last week, WebmasterWorld has been delisted from Google and MSN, and is sure enough to be delisted soon from Yahoo. Want to see for yourself? Just perform a site search command at Google you’ll get this response “Your search - site:www.webmasterworld.com - did not match any documents.”
Wait a minute here. With millions of businesses jumping at the chance to have their site content indexed and ranked well on Google, Yahoo and MSN, why would WebmasterWorld go in the opposite direction of taking their content off of the major search engines? Is this some publicity stunt or experiment they’ve conjured up?
Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld explains “We have pushed the limits of page delivery, banning, ip based, agent based, and down right cloaking to avoid the rogue bots - but it is becoming an increasingly difficult problem to control.”
WebmasterWorld plans on possibly reallowing the bots in the future.
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Mouwer on Nov 24, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Maybe it has to do with the fact that with changing the user-agent in firefox, for example to googlebot, it is possible to look at the whole forum without having to login.
Suonerie Polifoniche Cellulari on Nov 26, 2005 at 11:04 pm
Strange move when you are leading the pack, guess we’ll have to go directly to the source, that is a valuable and very extensive site.
zadi anicet on Nov 20, 2008 at 4:13 am
my fafory the net.i’am twenteen olds.i’m from cote-d’ivoire in the contrie africa.
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