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How do I block the Yandex.ru bot from crawling my site?

Colin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:47:20 +0000

Re: How to stop Yandex, Blocking Yandex.RU

Yandex is the most popular search engine in Russia. Your bandwidth can go through the roof if this bot targets your website.

Unfortunately for many, the robots.txt file is ignored so blocking Yandex using the official method is not an option.

If you have a busy forum or website with hundreds of pages you may find that the Yandex Bot is starting to take up more of your site resources by indexing up to 90 pages every 15 minutes often leaving connections open or failing to close them properly.

You can easily disable the Yandex.ru Bot by placing the following in your .htaccess file:

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Yandex*" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot

Using this method saves you the trouble of having to find blocks of Yandex IP addresses and block them individually which would only work for a limited time.

Top 5 Tips since Google Panda Update

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:18:45 +0000

The Google Panda update is well and truly rolled out to UK sites.

Some sites lost a high percentage of their traffic, others were unaffected. To minimise your site exposure to the new rules, consider the following 5 very important tips:

Unique content is more important than ever
Links from low quality directories and blogs are worth less
Quality relevant backlinks are worth more
Quality relevant links from authority sites are worth more
Remove duplicate (and spun) content or risk being de-indexed.

Keep your site within the new rules and your traffic will return and if you were unaffected, significant gains could be realised.

Get your Facebook Pretty URL now!

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:17:40 +0000

Facebook is becoming one of the world’s largest search engines. Use it as a way for your page to be found. If you have not set your username (Pretty URL) on Facebook, do it today!

Directing visitors to a business page is so easy with a URL like:

http://www.facebook.com/HostingUK

Some points to consider:

Facebook’s usernames will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis.
Once you pick a name, it’s yours for life.
You don’t necessarily have to use your real name.
You won’t be able to get a ‘generic word’ as your username.
You’ll have to use at least five characters

While Facebook is encouraging the use of real names, you aren’t limited in that regard. The system will suggest a few available options based on your first and/or last name, but it’ll also provide a blank field in which you can type something completely unrelated.

Each Facebook account gets only one username, and you can never change it. You can’t transfer it to someone else, either. Even if you delete your Facebook account, Facebook says the name won’t go back into the pool.

So go ahead, grab your name before someone else does….

http://www.facebook.com/username

Good luck!

5 free ways to SEO traffic (Video 10/10)

Colin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:58:23 +0000

This video tutorial explains how to get free traffic.