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Ban site from indexing my content via feed?

         

Ma2T

1:05 pm on Jul 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hey there,

Im hoping some smart people will be kind enough to help me out.

One of my websites (blog) is listed on website (blogowogo.com) while takes my article from my feed with the same title and first 30 or so words, and google ranks them higher than myself.

This is incredibly annoying, I have emailed the site numerous times, but no reply.

Being out ranked on my own work is driving me crazy.

I hope this is the correct area to post in. I belive they are taking the content from my feed, I could stop this feed, but I know many users read it.

Is there any way to block blogowogo.com from my site, I don't think they use a bot, nor do I know their ip address.

Any help or ideas would be great.
Many thanks for your time,
Matt

jdMorgan

6:46 pm on Jul 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



You'll need to look up their IP address or address range using one of the many WHOIS lookup tools on the Web. Most of the big-name domain registrars provide such free tools -- try a search.

Then you can block that address or address range from directly accessing your site. You also may be able to use that address information to find their accesses in your raw server access log file and obtain futher information about what user-agent they use.

Then you can use mod_access or mod_rewrite to deny access to their IP address range and/or user-agent.

Jim