BrianW said
Great stuff, Doug, in both posts. Thank you for sharing.
I’m looking fwd to understanding more about Spikes from Jake and Andrew – having a difficult time getting my head around them at the moment and how they differ from current landlord sites.
We’ll know soon.  

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Nope, nada, nilch – at least none that have been set up by, or reported to, us

Tim said
I’m interested as well. I’ve heard of others having brands go after them when using them to drive traffic. Do they have a legal standing? I don’t know. However, you and I don’t have the budget to find out. 
I’d like to know where the line in the sand is or isn’t for this.

The line is “fair use”, but it’s a pretty expensive one to draw

Locking as all is speculation right now; innocent until proven guilty and not-relevant to our money making endeavors.  Best all

Do you have 302 redirect option enabled?  Any info helps

htaccess_block.txt

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*semrushbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ia_archiver.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*rogerbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*exabot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*MJ12bot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dotbot.*…

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BigHappy said
I have a 15,000 post site that I want to use Double Agent on. I want to create a single landing page of my own.
 
Can I build a page under the same URL and then use the Site Wide URL box to go to that one page or would that page also be under redirect?
 
Thanks
 
Big

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Matt said
I added StatPress and yeah it looks like attack of the Google bots that might be slowing down my sites. I have spyderspanker. Should I use this to throttle them down somehow? If so, will that affect indexing the pages at all?

Hi Matt, limestone’s gotta be getting sick of these GGOS attacksto answer your questions:

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