Josh could you detail the googlebot and expand on what you write below?
-r
On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:19 PM, Josh McDonald wrote:
Google most definitely re-indexes from various different data-
centres (read: class B addresses) and I'm sure also occasionally
using random real user-agents, and will punish sites which
consistently return "A" to googlebot and "B" to browsers. They'd be
fools not to, and they hire a *lot* of very smart people.
-Josh
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had a meeting with ( forgot his name ) from Adobe and he gave me
the scoop.
You will not be able to determine ( legally ) if and when your .swf
is being indexed. You can't even get a report on how successful /
unsuccessful the spider was in crawling your .swf
There are no 'best practices' just don't try to 'cheat'. Apparently,
Adobe and the other search providers have developed methods ( both
separately and together ) to 'punish' those who spam their content.
My opinion of the whole thing....
It's a Joke, don't waste your time. Remember that community effort
to get ( i think it was ) "Flexalicious" to pop up in google. Well
it failed nicely.
Alan
On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:54 PM, arieljake wrote:
I was wondering what it takes for the server to realize that a
request
is coming from Google's indexing machines so that text can be output
instead of a Flex app.
Also, do we need to be careful doing this to not get in trouble with
Google? Are their best practices to follow when we output the text?
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