Spammer searches google for forms

strips the real keyword to simply [KEYWORD]...can I

[walkman]

I have certain text to ask people to review a product and apparently uses the "http://www.google.com/search?q=[KEYWORD]&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&num=100" to find and follow them. I am in the process of adding some form of protection, but I can make it so any referral from the url with [KEYWORD] is refused? Obviously, I can't ban all google referrals :)

thanks

[wilderness]

walkman,
It's not clear to me what your asking here, however the simpliest method for this particualr log entry today is to just deny the Class B range of the provider (theplanet.com).

You may also deny based on words contained within refer regardless of who or where they come from.

Don

[walkman]

actually it's goes to a NJ co that begins with NA...

Would it be safe to block hosts? After all they are webhosts, not really used to surf :)?

[wilderness]

Would it be safe to block hosts?

Each webmaster must determine what is benefical or detrimental to their own website (s).

I ban all co-locators.

This is hardly a forum that discusses such issues and there are many threads in forum 11 archives that will assist you in determonation.

A very old and LONG thread is:
[webmasterworld.com...]
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[webmasterworld.com...]

There are many other old threads however these three are plenty to get you in motion.

[walkman]

thanks guys,
I blocked thePlanet.com as a whole, wanted to block nac.net but they also residential services so I didn't; instead I blocked the server /reseller where the bot came from. I also added this:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer [google.com...] spammer=yes

Deny from env=spammer

since this is the exact referral. Time will tell if it works. I check to see if I can still get normal referrals from google and it seems that I haven't blocked them by mistake--yet :)