Re: My googlebot approach for GWT: UserBotRouter

2008-09-30 Thread John Fowler
Thanks for the note of caution. I'll rethink my approach to ensure my site doesn't get black-listed. john... On Sep 30, 9:05 am, Junyang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Creative idea. > > One big note of caution. This technique of showing a different page to > the search engine bot from one that

Re: My googlebot approach for GWT: UserBotRouter

2008-09-30 Thread John Fowler
Jeff, Thanks for the warning. I think your warning is significant enough to dissuade me from trying my way. I'll have to think of another, or buy your book... I took a quick look at your book in Amazon, and it looks comprehensive and well written. john... On Sep 30, 7:49 am, jdwyah <[EMAIL P

Re: My googlebot approach for GWT: UserBotRouter

2008-09-30 Thread Junyang
Creative idea. One big note of caution. This technique of showing a different page to the search engine bot from one that is seen by a normal user is often considered as black hat SEO and can get your site banned. Secondly, using user-agent to detect search engine is unreliable. I do not want to

Re: My googlebot approach for GWT: UserBotRouter

2008-09-30 Thread jdwyah
Hey John, >From what I can tell, you need to be careful with that approach (although it's pretty darn cool). Google get's very nervous when it finds out that the googlebot is going one place but users are going another since this is something that evil, spam-y websites do. It's tough to get a defi

My googlebot approach for GWT: UserBotRouter

2008-09-29 Thread John Fowler
Please advise concerning my approach for enabling googlebot to index my GWT site: http://www.SudokuComplete.com/ First, I needed to create a static, flattened, html-only view of my website. To do this, I created a simple .Net program that uses the IE WebBrowser control to navigate to my GWT site