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LinkWalker/2.0

Anyone knows what this bot does?

         

ibnuasad

4:36 am on Dec 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I checked my WordPress FireStats and it seems that this bot has been snooping to ALL of my pages in my site. Is this particular bot harmful?

wilderness

7:10 pm on Jan 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Harmful?

It really is a decision you must make to decide what is beneficial or detrimental to your own website (s)!

Is the spidering being done by a website that is going to benefit your website (s) with reciprocal links and traffic?
OR
Is it just somebody harvesting your website (s) URl's?

I have Link anything denied as a UA.

Mokita

9:29 pm on Jan 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



There was a previous discussion about Linkwalker here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

It is also known to be a user-agent employed by email Harvesters. See the Project Honeypot site:
[projecthoneypot.org...]

Personally, I have all the SevenTwentyFour IPs banned.