Comments on: Stop Rogue Web Bots From Eating Your Bandwidth & Stealing Your Content

By: Kats (And Other) Tal

Kats (And Other) Tal — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:46:44 +0000

This is a great piece, thanks. Checking out the bot repeller…

By: Lucky

Lucky — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:24:39 +0000

Your blog is so interesting that I want to subscribe to its feed… but alas, I can't find the RSS link!

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:06:55 +0000

Hi Suzi, Yes, you have two options at the end of tool. One is to download the file, and the other is to just copy the info to add to your existing file. Pretty nice! If you want more discussion on this, Problogger is talking about it too.

By: Suzi

Suzi — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:35:18 +0000

I already have an extensive custom .htaccess file for my site at http://spywarewarrior.com. Does anyone know if I can add the contents of my own .htaccess file to the one generated by BotSense?

By: bryce

bryce — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:51:23 +0000

True Story – About one year ago someone copied and posted my entire site (all 6000 html pages) verbatim. He only just changed the domain name title and main logo gif.

I discovered it quickly when my affiliate referral credits leaped upward dramatically. However, the increase all came from a domain I had not heard of before. Imagine my shock when I went to see what was on that domain.

But with the increase sales, I didn’t know if I should stop him or let him go. He had copied ALL of my affiliate referral links verbatim.

By: Connie Berg

Connie Berg — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:13:21 +0000

Forgot to add, I signed up for this beta almost a month ago. Am still waiting in frustration for the control panel link and reports. I have contacted Don several times and still have nothing.

By: Connie Berg

Connie Berg — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:10:52 +0000

I have had issues with a well known competitor eating up my bandwidth. They were continuously scraping my site for new coupons. We blocked the ip, but they kept coming back. I sent an email, they just slowed down. They don't care. They change ips all the time.
Maybe time to send them a bill for the bandwidth.

By: Donald Simms

Donald Simms — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:37:26 +0000

I wish i was lucky the punks come in and spider out all my coupons and robots.txt dont stop them. Ive had it. Thanks for the tip Jim Im going to try the tool.