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dornoforpyros

macrumors 68040
Original poster
Oct 19, 2004
3,070
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Calgary, AB
So this morning I received a call from a sales person at RedZee.com telling me about their "great PPC & toolbar" without going into to many details it's basically spyware that manipulates the way google/yahoo/msn results are rendered in IE when their search bar in installed.

So basically everything they are hawking spyware & taking peoples money. The reason I'm asking about a redirect is when you use their shady redzee.com "search engine" their regular listings also come up in the sponsors links. So when I search my own name I not only come up in the regular results but also in the sponsors section. Being that I haven't given (nor do I plan to) any of my money I'd like to set up a site wide redirect on my own domain so that their BS search engine doesn't explore my site at all.

any thoughts/ides on this?
 

andysmith

macrumors 6502
Sep 24, 2004
342
0
West Mids, UK
Before you can block them, you need to find out what you're actually blocking - their spider bot's user-agent, their assigned IP blocks maybe.
 

superbovine

macrumors 68030
Nov 7, 2003
2,872
0
robot.txt assume that the programmer of the bot is honorable, and actually cares to get the robot.txt file. depending on your site, you basis a redirect on a referal address. it would have to depend if you are using php, pl, asp, etc. usually for leeches that ignore the robot.txt file, i usually don't redirect them but just send them a blank page. that way, that way bot will think the site is empty.
 
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