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December 2005

WmW Access Restored

by Greg December 19, 2005 Search

I’m happy to report I can once again access WebmasterWorld. Brett announced today in his new blog that I was one of 30 people (another was DaveN) who got caught in his auto rogue bot filter because I surfed his site with a search engine UA.
Let that be a warning to all of you who [...]

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Banned from WebmasterWorld

by Greg December 16, 2005 Search

This morning I started getting an XML Parse Error on my WmW feed. I did a quick header check and found:
——————————- (Response for http://www.webmasterworld.com/) HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:13:44 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 3985 Connection: [...]

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Network Solutions to Acquire MonsterCommerce

by Greg December 16, 2005 Search

Network Solutions to Acquire MonsterCommerce
Congratulations to Stephanie Leffler and everyone else at MonsterCommerce. I can’t think of a more deserving group of people.

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Welcome Back Brett

by Greg December 15, 2005 Search

I was doing some test surfing this morning using a new user agent/header checking tool Dax just built. Just for fun, I loaded up WebmasterWorld with a Slurp UA. Suprisingly, I was able to navigate through the site. I was also able to surf the site as Googlebot and MSNbot.
I quick check of the robots.txt [...]

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Evil Jeremy Part 2

by Greg December 13, 2005 Search

One of the things about blogging I haven’t yet come to grips with is the idea that anyone other than my 10 drinking buddies will be reading what I write. When discussing search with the brew crew, I always have the luxury of knowing everyone present has a good understanding of where I stand [...]

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