Jim, It is possible to UNICODE HREFs and a lot of bots ignore these types of links. I use unicoded HREFs for all of my email addresses so spam bots don't grab them. I haven't tested unicoded HREFs in all browsers, just Netscape 4.08 and IE 4+ on Windows
If you want to take a look at a unicoded href you can use this form to generate them: http://cftags.veloxweb.com/unicode/ HTH, Joseph DeVore VeloxWeb Technologies -----Original Message----- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Keep search engine spyders from following links IIS. What exactly would the ISAPI application do? I suppose within my redirection template I _could_ parse the cgi.useragent string and neither record nor redirect known spyders. Keeping an up-to-date list of agents might be a pain, though. I'd rather just tell the syders (even if only the well-behaved ones) not to follow the link. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:39 PM Subject: Re: OT: Keep search engine spyders from following links > what's your web server? You can write an apache module to do this and I > would assume you could do the same with ISAPI > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jim McAtee wrote: > > > On a couple of web pages, I run links to outside web sites through a CF > > template that records the click-through along with some browser and referer > > stats in a table, then redirects the browser to the target URL. Is there > > any way to prevent search engine spyders from following these links? If I'm > > not mistaken, there's no way to use a robots.txt to prevent this behavior, > > or is there? > > > > Thanks, > > Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
