Spider Bait - anyone heard of it?

apparently it hides the ? in database driven pages

[charon]

Hi all

I've lurked for a while, but now I have a valid question, it's time to post.

We're an SEO company in the UK, and one of our clients is using a programme called Spiderbait/Spider Bait to hide the ? in their database driven URLs from spiders. It would seem to have worked so far. But I can't find much out about how it works, so I have 2 questions:

a) has anyone heard of it/used it, and does it work?

b) is it a legitimate practise from a search engine perspective or has it been banned?

All help gratefully received!
Thanks
Charon

[Damian]

Don't know about Spiderbait, but removing the question marks from the url can be done with mod_rewrite. You don't need to buy any software for that.

Search this forum for "mod rewrite" and you'll find how to do it

Here's an interseting thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

And one solution without mod_rewrite:
[webmasterworld.com...]

>legitimate practise
depends how you use it I guess..

[charon]

Thanks Damien, we gave them that and lots of other options but they wanted to use this one. And as it's a new thing to us, we're keen to see if it really works, or if it's been banned yet!

Cheers
Charon

[edited by: Marcia at 11:13 am (utc) on July 3, 2002]
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