tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post5446416132372024110..comments2023-10-18T05:54:12.748-07:00Comments on IncrediBILL's Random Rants: SEOMoz's New Linkscape Creates Webmaster BacklashIncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-32376842701030402372008-10-31T21:24:00.000-07:002008-10-31T21:24:00.000-07:00"Do you have some rough figures on traffic convers..."Do you have some rough figures on traffic conversion from competing SEOs? ;)"<BR/><BR/>No, but then "competing" is not the same thing as "cheating" and is not wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-39182093274992603102008-10-18T14:20:00.000-07:002008-10-18T14:20:00.000-07:00@Anonymous "Linkscape "took" nothing from them, co...@Anonymous <BR/><BR/>"Linkscape "took" nothing from them, cost them basically nothing, but may drive them some traffic."<BR/><BR/>Do you have some rough figures on traffic conversion from competing SEOs? ;) <BR/><BR/>Just to update though, it seems there is no Moz crawler after all. They have mashed data from several data sources and APIs. At least that clears up the UA issue, so thanks to them Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-9214962216868181522008-10-17T20:29:00.000-07:002008-10-17T20:29:00.000-07:00"If I crawled your site using a list of 1K proxy I..."If I crawled your site using a list of 1K proxy IPs, I could easily download 10K pages in a hurry and have an impact but it would look indistinguishable from normal traffic."<BR/><BR/>Not if I don't normally get traffic at those levels. A big bolus of traffic on top of normal levels, with no apparent slashdotting (I'd look for a major blog or similar site in the referrer logs, of course), would Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-33223753061359132222008-10-10T12:54:00.000-07:002008-10-10T12:54:00.000-07:00You're confusing the lack of being able so sort Li...You're confusing the lack of being able so sort Linkscape out of the onslaught of crawlers, visible and stealth, with the fact that it had impact.<BR/><BR/>For instance, if I crawled your site using a list of 1K proxy IPs, I could easily download 10K pages in a hurry and have an impact but it would look indistinguishable from normal traffic.<BR/><BR/>The fact that it crawled and nobody knew it IncrediBILLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-29277092788860678692008-10-10T11:25:00.000-07:002008-10-10T11:25:00.000-07:00If all those webmasters didn't notice Linkscape's ...If all those webmasters didn't notice Linkscape's crawling, then Linkscape's crawling can't have impacted them very much, CPU or bandwidth wise, can it have? Which means Linkscape "took" nothing from them, cost them basically nothing, but may drive them some traffic.<BR/><BR/>Those who did notice a deleterious effect from their bot have apparently blocked it.<BR/><BR/>I don't see why you're Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-18287931759416708492008-10-09T10:42:00.000-07:002008-10-09T10:42:00.000-07:00This bot is worse than a plague. I've seen it in t...This bot is worse than a plague. I've seen it in three different formats since August. It was having a seriously deleterious effect on my site until I blocked it.<BR/><BR/>DotBot/1.0.1 (http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/#info, crawler@dotnetdotcom.org)<BR/><BR/>DotBot/1.0.1 (http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/, crawler@dotnetdotcom.org)<BR/><BR/>Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.dotnetdotcom.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-75949110811915670302008-10-09T08:05:00.000-07:002008-10-09T08:05:00.000-07:00Will this see it off, or do I need more? User-agen...Will this see it off, or do I need more? <BR/><BR/>User-agent: dotbot<BR/>Disallow: /Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-15193969967310264462008-10-09T04:47:00.000-07:002008-10-09T04:47:00.000-07:00Uhm... what's their netblock again?Uhm... what's their netblock again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com