Jochem Maas wrote:
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
robots.txt will not do what you want it to.
Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all
publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different
content if it's one of those.
they will hammer you for it eventually - AFAICT all major SEs send out
their
spiders occasionally with faked user-agent strings - to catch out crap like
this.
oh and the guy that invented php is a really bigcheese down at yahoo...
and he reads this list :-) though I doubt he has the time or desire to
chase
you personally.
I would recommend you don't go down this road. it's bad for your
business in the
longer term and its bad for the web because your filling it with shite.
Of course it is, but in his original post he said that he realised that
it was bad, and he didn't want to hear reasons not to do it.
I would never even attempt to do something like this on a website of my
own -- as I said in an off-list email to this guy (it was OT for the
list) it's going to harm his website more than help it. It's not exactly
hard for the search engines to detect cloaking.
Jasper
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