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Link bots!

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Published 6th December 2012 |
Read latest comment - 10th December 2012

Hey All,
I am confused about a few things, can anyone help?

What are link bots?
What is the different between bots and spiders?
What kind of impact do they leave on any websits?

Ill be greatful for your help!
Regards

JackD
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Hi Jack

Bots, Spiders, link bots, crawlers etc are all the same thing. Just automated scripts which go crawling round the web capturing information, indexing, archiving content etc.

They can be created for malicious reasons, or can be routine programs. Examples of routine ones are the googlebot, which indexs the web for it's search results, bingbot which does the same for Bing.

If you are worried about a particular bot, you can exclude it from your robots text file (see here for info about robots text file)

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
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forum avatarJackD
9th December 2012 8:57 AM
Hey All,

Please help me with a questions;

What are Link-Bots and Spiders? How can they effect a website ?

How is a website crawled if 75% - 80% are pictures and rest the data is about the company and managerial profiles?

Regards!

JackD

I merged your thread with this one as they seem to be about the same subject.

Thanks,
Dreamraven

How is a website crawled if 75% - 80% are pictures and rest the data is about the company and managerial profiles?

Not heard of Google Images?

Google can crawl images without any problems. Make sure you update any alt tags to give a non spammy reference.

Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

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