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I'm thinking of using this site as a guide to new bots visiting my site in order to make decisions as to whether or not I want to allow the bot(s) continued access. Until now, I never considered whether a bot was coming from a PPC engine when posting new engines here.
My question is: In the broader scheme of things, are visits from PPC engines going to do me any good?
I do not do ads, or affiliates and my site is an academic directory where monetizing the Internet is not my goal.
I take it someone else ( third party ) would financially benefit from others who may visit me thru that particular PPC engine, correct?
I take it someone else ( third party ) would financially benefit from others who may visit me thru that particular PPC engine, correct?
Perhaps a sugar daddy will find his way to your site to be impressed to offer you job that you can't decline. Perhaps you future love will find your site and email you only to find out you have rich character and later marry you, have kids etc. Perhaps many other possibilities that will certainly not happen if you block people on the basis of limited knowledge on how their activity can benefit you.
You see, people like yourself and myself are in a very small minority and there are so many sites out there that the world is unlikely to notice yours or mine abscense. The world would not care and just use someone else -- they will have chances to benefit, not you. If everyone was acting in this way then there would have been no Google, and no Web as we know it.
If someone spiders your content for emails to spam then ban 'em.
If someone overloads your site then ban them.
If someone disobeys robots.txt then ban them.
If someone politely crawls you for reasons you may not understand... then let them live -- this decision might give you great returns in the future. Its not like you have to DO anything to let your site spidered and with low costs of bandwidth these days its not a big deal.
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Don
I'll never see at least three of those spiders as a result of having most of RIPE and othe non-North American ranges denied.[webmasterworld.com...]
What's changed?
Lotsa 'ifs' there too. I guess I'm getting a bit tired of folks riding my coat tails is all, for whatever reason.
I guess I'm getting a bit tired of folks riding my coat tails is all
In the event one of the PPC's you describe came from a RIPE IP than I wouldn't be interested in the visitor or traffic.
Even if the PPC came from a SE that had provided problems with in the past or does not provide substantial traffic to my sites, would I be interested.
On the other hand if the referrals were from a provided which fits within my "narrow" boundaries?
Than I don't see any harm on what method the SE/PPC uses to direct traffic to me.
The end result is that I gain a vsitor interested in my wesbites content.
Perhaps that not the case for you?
I would think that you just like I, get visitors who are interested in the content you offer and visitors that have stumbled across your site by accident or vague search inquiries?
Don
