>- see footer for list info -< The easiest solution, Terry, is to add some code to every page that checks the HTTP referer to ensure that it's www.footballsite.com (whatever) and if it's not then redirect the user/bot to the home page. The only drawback is if a visitor got to the site via an authorised or genuine link or via a search engine. The workaround for that is to add google.com, msn.com, etc, as an exception to that piece of code.
Also your client should try looking at the user agents from his web logs to see what IPs are the offenders, what software they use to pinch content. It may be an idea to block certain user agents or IPs if your logs identify them. Gary. On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:22 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Terry Riley < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >- see footer for list info -< > Afternoon, all. > > Client has a football league/results site, for which he does not charge - > but makes most of his income on this site from ads, both paid and adsense. > > Just lately it has been reported that a number of other sites are creating > links to his results pages (some of them) within their own applications > and charging for the information. > > I am waiting for him to advise me exactly how he knows this, what the > sites are (and their IP addresses). In the meantime, I agreed to > investigate how this sort of thing might be prevented. > > The main site (on its peak day, Monday) is now hitting 400,000 pages (not > hits, pages) on a good day. Not huge, but the advertising revenue on a cpm > basis is significant, and any diminution hits his pocket (and indirectly, > mine). > > I thought of creating another table listing IP addresses of such > 'thieving' sites, running every page through an IP address query, and > making their users type in some sort of authentication before connecting > to his CF pages. How long they could stand this before complaining to the > thieving admin I don't know - assuming it is possible. > > It seems like a bit of overkill, and I think I'm probably missing a trick > somewhere. > > Anyone got any other suggestions - Google doesn't give me too many options > (or I'm asking the wrong questions......). > > Cheers > Terry > > _______________________________________________ > > For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to > http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo > > -- > CFDeveloper Sponsors:- > >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< > >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< > >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< > >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< > >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help > -< > _______________________________________________ For details on ALL mailing lists and for joining or leaving lists, go to http://list.cfdeveloper.co.uk/mailman/listinfo -- CFDeveloper Sponsors:- >- Hosting provided by www.cfmxhosting.co.uk -< >- Forum provided by www.fusetalk.com -< >- DHTML Menus provided by www.APYCOM.com -< >- Lists hosted by www.Gradwell.com -< >- CFdeveloper is run by Russ Michaels, feel free to volunteer your help -<
