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Digg it UP - You, Some SEO and a Spider
Action learning provides a structured approach to making progress on difficult and sometimes emotive issues. Taking part in an action learning set can help improve skills vital to leading a business forward, namely:Being objective and making decisionsImproving listening and questioningCreating the climate for purposeful discussionAn action learning set normally numbers between 5 and 7, and at the start is facilitated to give the group a good foundation. Each member of the group gets a period of time to explain their issue, and then gets questioned by the rest of the group. Each member of the group can take a turn. A good set has trust between the members, a good set of ground rules that have been a
Malignant Crawlers
They can be (much to my upset) used for Spamming. Malignant crawlers look through your website with a view to capture all the e-mail addresses and other useful data displayed there.
If they do this you can expect an inbox full of Spam. I discovered 20 e-mails from a Japanese Adult dating website in my Herds of Words inbox today. I was not a happy bunny.
However, you can avoid this (I was just that little bit too late) if you encode the addresses differently making it harder for these evil Bots to trap you.
If you are using Cascading Style Sheets (.css):
- Create an html-tag to fit around the text you want to use as an e-mail address.
- In the css file you must define that tag, so:
postmaster:after{ content: "postmaster40herdsofwords.co.uk";}
If that doesn’t help you, or you don’t use cascading style sheets, please have a look through this useful article by Daniel Cody, http://evolt.org/article/Using_Apache_to_stop_bad_robots/18/15126/
I hope
If you are reading this there is a good possibility that you have spent countless hours trying to devise methods to make money online. Perhaps you have a new baby, or a family member is recovering from a sickness or injury, or maybe you lost your job. Maybe you just want to supplement your income or maybe you would just like to work for yourself. Whatever the reason, the decision to work from home can be a tough one. Once you’ve made that decision, you will need to take the time necessary to determine the best opportunity that gives you the means to consistently make money from home before fully committing to the idea.The job market is tight in many areas of the country. Specific in-demand skills are offering fewer opp
What do you imagine when you think of successful seduction?
Right now I’m thinking of thousands of tiny spiders crawling over my computer screen. No, I’m not mentally ill – I’m talking about making your website seductive; or rather, attractive to webspiders and net-bots.
What are webspiders, what are net-bots?
Web-spiders, ants and crawlers are just some of the names for the automatic scripts that browse the Internet in a methodological fashion. They harvest data for different kinds of processing. They can be used internally - a website may employ a net-bot to check for broken links, or they can be used by search engines to index new and updated websites.
For some examples of these webcrawlers please have a browse through Wikipedia’s selection;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler#Examples_of_web_crawlers
Why would I seduce a spider?
Never thought I’d write that. Crawlers are good for your website because they let the search engines find you. Without them your website would be very difficult to find.
The benefits of webcrawlers:
- Your website will be indexed by the major search engines.
- The crawlers will notice updates and the search engines will update accordingly.
- The search engine will display your website correctly.
How do I seduce a Spider?
Spiders like Googlebot (please see How Google Crawls my site for more details) want to index your website and they will find you if you have:
- Links to your website from external (and *legitimate) URLs
- Links to other websites (like directories you may feature in, for example).
- Internal page links (the Bots use them to navigate)
(*By ‘legitimate’ I meant bone fide websites, which are not connected to your own website. It would not benefit you to create single-page website to link back from, for example.)
However, you do not want a crawler to index all the information in your website. It would be a waste of time having your /image directory listed on Google, for example, so you must disallow the crawlers from accessing this content. You may also want to protect your e-mail addresses from malignant crawlers (Please see ‘Are all crawlers safe?’ below).
To do this you should create a Robot.txt file.
A robot.txt file is a simple, but potent, document that every website should keep in its root directory. This file is your ‘fart in the lift’; it is small, but very powerful in effect. With it you may stop a crawler harvesting certain pages or even entire directories by using the command -
Disallow:
A Mini robot.txt tutorial:
1. Start a notepad document and name it robot.txt
2. Address the webcrawlers like this:
User-agent: *
The ‘user-agent’ denotes that you are addressing a webcrawler. If you place an asterisk in the way that I have done here you will address every webcrawler that happens upon your website. If you wish to address individual crawlers you should list them by name like this:
User-agent: Googlebot
But you must list the disallowed pages/directories for each crawler individually.
For example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /user-list/email/
Disallow: /products/images/
Disallow: /articles/contributors/
All files and folders listed in these directories will be blocked and will not be indexed. Bear in mind that you should list the directories as relative to the position of the robot.txt file, or the robot.txt will not be referring to the correct information. The robot.txt cannot refer to material in directories above it, for example;
http://www.yoururl.co.uk/index/robot.txt
The robot.txt cannot refer to anything that is higher than ‘index/’ directory, in other words –it will not refer to material above itself.
3. You may also want to disallow certain files, you can do so like this:
Disallow: /articles/jubjub.html
Disallow: /index/error_page.html
Are all crawlers safe?
No, some can and will bite you. There are many webcrawlers and they may visit your website for reasons other than indexing. You should attempt to protect certain information by disallowing the crawlers as I have shown you in the tutorial above.
Malignant Crawlers
They can be (much to my upset) used for Spamming. Malignant crawlers look through your website with a view to capture all the e-mail addresses and other useful data displayed there.
If they do this you can expect an inbox full of Spam. I discovered 20 e-mails from a Japanese Adult dating website in my Herds of Words inbox today. I was not a happy bunny.
However, you can avoid this (I was just that little bit too late) if you encode the addresses differently making it harder for these evil Bots to trap you.
If you are using Cascading Style Sheets (.css):
- Create an html-tag to fit around the text you want to use as an e-mail address.
- In the css file you must define that tag, so:
postmaster:after{ content: "postmaster40herdsofwords.co.uk";}
If that doesn’t help you, or you don’t use cascading style sheets, please have a look through this useful article by Daniel Cody, http://evolt.org/article/Using_Apache_to_stop_bad_robots/18/15126/
I hope t
Companies thrive on promotion. Most companies have their people on staff whose soul purpose is to crate promotions and promotional rewards.These promotional rewards are similar to customer incentives in that they are trying to sell products to both new and loyal customer. But unlike some incentive programs which can sometimes take weeks, months, and in some cases even years to implement promotional incentives are designed to give a product an immediate boost in sales.Grocery stores are probably the best example of an ongoing promotional incentive program. On Saturday’s they open their doors to food distributors who haul in tables, chairs, and boxes of toothpicks. These food hawkers set up mini stations in the mi
The benefits of webcrawlers:
- Your website will be indexed by the major search engines.
- The crawlers will notice updates and the search engines will update accordingly.
- The search engine will display your website correctly.
How do I seduce a Spider?
Spiders like Googlebot (please see How Google Crawls my site for more details) want to index your website and they will find you if you have:
- Links to your website from external (and *legitimate) URLs
- Links to other websites (like directories you may feature in, for example).
- Internal page links (the Bots use them to navigate)
(*By ‘legitimate’ I meant bone fide websites, which are not connected to your own website. It would not benefit you to create single-page website to link back from, for example.)
However, you do not want a crawler to index all the information in your website. It would be a waste of time having your /image directory listed on Google, for example, so you must disallow the crawlers from accessing this content. You may also want to protect your e-mail addresses from malignant crawlers (Please see ‘Are all crawlers safe?’ below).
To do this you should create a Robot.txt file.
A robot.txt file is a simple, but potent, document that every website should keep in its root directory. This file is your ‘fart in the lift’; it is small, but very powerful in effect. With it you may stop a crawler harvesting certain pages or even entire directories by using the command -
Disallow:
A Mini robot.txt tutorial:
1. Start a notepad document and name it robot.txt
2. Address the webcrawlers like this:
User-agent: *
The ‘user-agent’ denotes that you are addressing a webcrawler. If you place an asterisk in the way that I have done here you will address every webcrawler that happens upon your website. If you wish to address individual crawlers you should list them by name like this:
User-agent: Googlebot
But you must list the disallowed pages/directories for each crawler individually.
For example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /user-list/email/
Disallow: /products/images/
Disallow: /articles/contributors/
All files and folders listed in these directories will be blocked and will not be indexed. Bear in mind that you should list the directories as relative to the position of the robot.txt file, or the robot.txt will not be referring to the correct information. The robot.txt cannot refer to material in directories above it, for example;
http://www.yoururl.co.uk/index/robot.txt
The robot.txt cannot refer to anything that is higher than ‘index/’ directory, in other words –it will not refer to material above itself.
3. You may also want to disallow certain files, you can do so like this:
Disallow: /articles/jubjub.html
Disallow: /index/error_page.html
Are all crawlers safe?
No, some can and will bite you. There are many webcrawlers and they may visit your website for reasons other than indexing. You should attempt to protect certain information by disallowing the crawlers as I have shown you in the tutorial above.
Malignant Crawlers
They can be (much to my upset) used for Spamming. Malignant crawlers look through your website with a view to capture all the e-mail addresses and other useful data displayed there.
If they do this you can expect an inbox full of Spam. I discovered 20 e-mails from a Japanese Adult dating website in my Herds of Words inbox today. I was not a happy bunny.
However, you can avoid this (I was just that little bit too late) if you encode the addresses differently making it harder for these evil Bots to trap you.
If you are using Cascading Style Sheets (.css):
- Create an html-tag to fit around the text you want to use as an e-mail address.
- In the css file you must define that tag, so:
postmaster:after{ content: "postmaster40herdsofwords.co.uk";}
If that doesn’t help you, or you don’t use cascading style sheets, please have a look through this useful article by Daniel Cody, http://evolt.org/article/Using_Apache_to_stop_bad_robots/18/15126/
I hope
The easiest thing to do with a Google Adwords campaign is to set it up and leave it alone. This could be loosing you a whole boat load of money and potential sales.The one thing that can make a huge difference to your campaign is to test your own ads.I don’t mean this literally by clicking your own Google ads, but testing is a huge part of any Adwords success.Let me explain…In the campaign management of Google Adwords are the options for creating and modifying your ads with the associated keywords for that particular ad group.Once you have created the ad it will be displayed at the top left of the page and at the bottom too. At the top of the page is the option to create a new type of ad.dex all the information in your website. It would be a waste of time having your /image directory listed on Google, for example, so you must disallow the crawlers from accessing this content. You may also want to protect your e-mail addresses from malignant crawlers (Please see ‘Are all crawlers safe?’ below).
To do this you should create a Robot.txt file.
A robot.txt file is a simple, but potent, document that every website should keep in its root directory. This file is your ‘fart in the lift’; it is small, but very powerful in effect. With it you may stop a crawler harvesting certain pages or even entire directories by using the command -
Disallow:
A Mini robot.txt tutorial:
1. Start a notepad document and name it robot.txt
2. Address the webcrawlers like this:
User-agent: *
The ‘user-agent’ denotes that you are addressing a webcrawler. If you place an asterisk in the way that I have done here you will address every webcrawler that happens upon your website. If you wish to address individual crawlers you should list them by name like this:
User-agent: Googlebot
But you must list the disallowed pages/directories for each crawler individually.
For example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /user-list/email/
Disallow: /products/images/
Disallow: /articles/contributors/
All files and folders listed in these directories will be blocked and will not be indexed. Bear in mind that you should list the directories as relative to the position of the robot.txt file, or the robot.txt will not be referring to the correct information. The robot.txt cannot refer to material in directories above it, for example;
http://www.yoururl.co.uk/index/robot.txt
The robot.txt cannot refer to anything that is higher than ‘index/’ directory, in other words –it will not refer to material above itself.
3. You may also want to disallow certain files, you can do so like this:
Disallow: /articles/jubjub.html
Disallow: /index/error_page.html
Are all crawlers safe?
No, some can and will bite you. There are many webcrawlers and they may visit your website for reasons other than indexing. You should attempt to protect certain information by disallowing the crawlers as I have shown you in the tutorial above.
Malignant Crawlers
They can be (much to my upset) used for Spamming. Malignant crawlers look through your website with a view to capture all the e-mail addresses and other useful data displayed there.
If they do this you can expect an inbox full of Spam. I discovered 20 e-mails from a Japanese Adult dating website in my Herds of Words inbox today. I was not a happy bunny.
However, you can avoid this (I was just that little bit too late) if you encode the addresses differently making it harder for these evil Bots to trap you.
If you are using Cascading Style Sheets (.css):
- Create an html-tag to fit around the text you want to use as an e-mail address.
- In the css file you must define that tag, so:
postmaster:after{ content: "postmaster40herdsofwords.co.uk";}
If that doesn’t help you, or you don’t use cascading style sheets, please have a look through this useful article by Daniel Cody, http://evolt.org/article/Using_Apache_to_stop_bad_robots/18/15126/
I hope
You have raised a home business with the help of products and services in which you honestly believe. Before counting your money, however, you need to make sure that your business has a future. And the best way to do this is through a carefully planned business-marketing program. Here is what you have to do.1. Do it your self. Do not delegate the building of the market foundation of your company. Even if there are some more qualified employees working with you, they do not know or love your business as you do. Ask for guidance from experts or hire them to help you design a business marketing plan, but bear in mind that the best results possible will come only out of your working closely with those experts.2. Don
But you must list the disallowed pages/directories for each crawler individually.
For example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /user-list/email/
Disallow: /products/images/
Disallow: /articles/contributors/
All files and folders listed in these directories will be blocked and will not be indexed. Bear in mind that you should list the directories as relative to the position of the robot.txt file, or the robot.txt will not be referring to the correct information. The robot.txt cannot refer to material in directories above it, for example;
http://www.yoururl.co.uk/index/robot.txt
The robot.txt cannot refer to anything that is higher than ‘index/’ directory, in other words –it will not refer to material above itself.
3. You may also want to disallow certain files, you can do so like this:
Disallow: /articles/jubjub.html
Disallow: /index/error_page.html
Are all crawlers safe?
No, some can and will bite you. There are many webcrawlers and they may visit your website for reasons other than indexing. You should attempt to protect certain information by disallowing the crawlers as I have shown you in the tutorial above.
Malignant Crawlers
They can be (much to my upset) used for Spamming. Malignant crawlers look through your website with a view to capture all the e-mail addresses and other useful data displayed there.
If they do this you can expect an inbox full of Spam. I discovered 20 e-mails from a Japanese Adult dating website in my Herds of Words inbox today. I was not a happy bunny.
However, you can avoid this (I was just that little bit too late) if you encode the addresses differently making it harder for these evil Bots to trap you.
If you are using Cascading Style Sheets (.css):
- Create an html-tag to fit around the text you want to use as an e-mail address.
- In the css file you must define that tag, so:
postmaster:after{ content: "postmaster40herdsofwords.co.uk";}
If that doesn’t help you, or you don’t use cascading style sheets, please have a look through this useful article by Daniel Cody, http://evolt.org/article/Using_Apache_to_stop_bad_robots/18/15126/
I hope
E-mail marketing as an advertising or promotional tool has been in existence for quite a long time. A lot of businessmen have indulged into the same practice because of its proven effectiveness. But to better enhance the effectiveness of the e-mail marketing tool is another point to answer. You may want to look at the strategies below on how you can increase the efficiency of this marketing tool.Make a stand; know what your e-mail is driving at. E-mail users have their e-mail accounts for many reasons. But, as I am quit sure, the e-mail box is not used to receive spam and unsolicited communications. With this in mind, you have to make sure that when a recipient sees youra mail on his inbox, you give him enough re
Malignant Crawlers
They can be (much to my upset) used for Spamming. Malignant crawlers look through your website with a view to capture all the e-mail addresses and other useful data displayed there.
If they do this you can expect an inbox full of Spam. I discovered 20 e-mails from a Japanese Adult dating website in my Herds of Words inbox today. I was not a happy bunny.
However, you can avoid this (I was just that little bit too late) if you encode the addresses differently making it harder for these evil Bots to trap you.
If you are using Cascading Style Sheets (.css):
- Create an html-tag to fit around the text you want to use as an e-mail address.
- In the css file you must define that tag, so:
postmaster:after{ content: "postmaster40herdsofwords.co.uk";}
If that doesn’t help you, or you don’t use cascading style sheets, please have a look through this useful article by Daniel Cody, http://evolt.org/article/Using_Apache_to_stop_bad_robots/18/15126/
I hope this article has been useful, if you have any questions, comments or friendly criticism please don’t hesitate to contact me at herdsofwords.co.uk.
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