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My Advise: Don’t Do It

Started by Vlad Zablotskyy · 10 months ago

Experimenting with Googlebot is indeed interesting. However my advise to anyone contemplating to restrict Googleot from your site via robots.txt is simple: DON’T DO IT! Besides the fact that in a short term you will loose some search traffic(no matter how little that traffic is) ... Continue reading »

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  • Disappointed to hear you took this step. Looking at your linked posts you're admitting that Google won.

    Linkbait?
  • Well it did become a good link bait. But I think I lost my focus:

    http://collective-thoughts.com/2007/11/20/socia...

    There are more important things in life to worry about.
  • I agree that there's no point to banning Google.

    I may still tell people that's the reason why a couple of my sites have zeroed out, however. ;) And if at any point a lot of us got together and did it en masse, well, that could be interesting indeed. But I don't see that happening in the foreseeable future.

    What I've learned from all this is that I need to accrue some stats for my sites that DON'T rely on pagerank. Create an "advertise here" page on each site with links to stats from a third party observer that doesn't even mention PR, and give potential advertisers a real sense of what my site's reach is.

    I need to be more proactive, and in a way, Google's silliness has pushed me to to get proactive, and that's a good thing. :)

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