ech3-3217691582.linkedin.com LinkedInBot/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla/5.0; Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 +http://www.linkedin.com)
robots.txt? NO
GaryK
8:22 pm on Sep 15, 2010 (gmt 0)
Ditto.
Dijkgraaf
9:05 pm on Sep 16, 2010 (gmt 0)
Do either of you two have a linkedin profile where you have entered your website? I'm going to enter mine and see if that gets me a visit.
Pfui
10:36 pm on Sep 16, 2010 (gmt 0)
@Dijkgraaf , I'm not quite sure what you mean but here goes:
1.) No profile. Not even any links to, from, etc. 2.) "Post-Tweet" in the OP meant the bot followed a tweeted link to one of my sites and thus appeared in my logs.
GaryK
7:14 pm on Sep 17, 2010 (gmt 0)
The one visiting me is part of what seems to be this twitter swarm Pfui told me about yesterday. It showed up along with Twitterbot and a few others after a client of mine made a Twitter account and tweeted with a link go a page on her site on my server.
Dijkgraaf
9:39 pm on Sep 19, 2010 (gmt 0)
linkedin is a legitimate site for professionals to network (useful for when job hunting). But I'm not sure why they would be running a web spider or following tweets. Their help site doesn't have any reference to LinkedInBot. Just the facts that it doesn't fetch robots.txt and does not have a link explaining it's purpose would be reason enough to ban it.
keyplyr
5:47 am on Sep 20, 2010 (gmt 0)
I've never seen a Jakarta Commons-HttpClient request robots.txt.
dstiles
8:23 pm on Sep 20, 2010 (gmt 0)
I allow linkedin because a few of my clients use it. I would REALLY like to block it in http AND mail - I get spam and never been near it! Unfortunately it upsets my clients, who include my daughter. :(
