WmW Access Restored

Posted by Greg on December 19th, 2005

I’m happy to report I can once again access WebmasterWorld. Brett announced today in his new blog that I was one of 30 people (another was DaveN) who got caught in his auto rogue bot filter because I surfed his site with a search engine UA.

Let that be a warning to all of you who have the Firefox UA switcher plugin installed. If you screw up and leave it set on Googlebot, you will be banned.

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7 Responses to “ WmW Access Restored ”

  1. sluz on December 19th, 2005 7:29 pm

    Cool…

    Thanks Greg, I didn’t know about the UA switcher until now. Sounds like a fun toy to play around with. Are there any other Firefox SEO plug-ins you would recommend?

    Wow… an “auto rogue bot filter�. I wish I had one of those. Do you know where I can go to learn how to make one?

    Sluz.

  2. Jenstar on December 20th, 2005 12:04 am

    Hehe, I got banned the first day he started using it… for a single pageview as googlebot.

  3. oilman on December 20th, 2005 1:17 am

    man - I clicked like a mofo as gbot, slurp and msnbot and no dice - LOL

  4. IncrediBILL on December 20th, 2005 2:37 am

    Well hell, this was too easy, I want more drama ;)

  5. WebGuerrilla on December 20th, 2005 3:03 pm

    OK, you got it. I am once again banned. And I haven’t been browsing as a bot.

  6. Mikkel deMib Svendsen on December 21st, 2005 1:30 pm

    > OK, you got it. I am once again banned. And I haven’t been browsing as a bot.

    It must be your browsing behaviour - you browse like a bot :)

  7. IncrediBILL on December 30th, 2005 3:41 am

    Bummer, you’re back in… there is no god ;)
    Guess Brett needs me to do his coding as my new spider trap doesn’t catch innocents and vanquish them to the abyss.

    Sigh, QA, what a concept.

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