On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Another good idea would be to put canonical links at the top of each of your > pages: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element
Have to be careful there tho, as many proxies, will blindly rewrite all links in a page to point to themselves (usually as relative links) ... I just checked. wapfree-ec alters the canonical tag. So would have to find a way to defeat their link parser, but still write it in such a way that search engines would still understand! > > > On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Norm Deplume <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Tell me there's someone at Google that understands this problem! >> >> In this case, you're the one that misunderstands the problem. Proxies >> are part of the fabric of the internet, and aren't stealing your >> content any more than the routers carrying the packets of this email >> message. >> >> It's unfortunate (or funny) that somehow the proxy ranks higher in >> search engines than your site does, but you have the complete ability >> to fix this yourself. You don't need Google's help. >> >> The simple solution is to block requests from wapfree-ec. All >> urlfetches from GAE include the appid in the User-Agent header. >> Viola, problem solved. If you want to be heavy-handed, you can block >> all requests from GAE. >> >> If you want to be really clever about it, serve different content to >> wapfree-ec. Like, say, a blank page with a big link pointing at your >> website. You might improve your own SEO juice that way. >> >> Last of all, stop blaming other people for your mistakes. >> >> Jeff >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
