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nostromo on Nov 1, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Protect Your Site with a Blackhole for Bad Bots

A few bad ideas here:

1) Blocking by IP address. (AOL and Universities come to mind.)

2) nofollow links are followed by search engines and users alike. (display:none is ignored by some text-based browsers that ignore CSS.)

ashleyw on Nov 1, 2010 [–]

Also: whitelisting anyone with "googlebot" in their user-agent. That's like letting anyone in at the White House just if they turn up with an Obama mask on.

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