Comments on: How To Prevent Spy Bots From Snooping Around Your PPC Campaigns

By: Davies Lim

Davies Lim — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:11:09 +0000

Does this method prevent alexa from showing any stats for our site, and how about sites that trace backlinks, namely backlink watch (dot) com

By: Wes (MasterlessSamurai.com)

Wes (MasterlessSamurai.com) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:01:19 +0000

Wow, its been a year since I wrote this post and have gotten quite the nice feedback. Thank you all.

I’ll put on my todo list that I need to update this post a bit with any new techniques I’ve discovered for blocking bots and provide an updated .htaccess list.

Everyone has different server configurations so the code examples I provided may not work for everyone in all cases. You’re best bet if something is working is the good ol’ Google search.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:34 +0000

Figured it. the last RewriteCond. must not have the [NC,OR]

the NC is no capitals – either with/without capitals. and the OR I guess is or command to next line. so Omit the ,OR

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:01:26 +0000

Hi I have tried to get the above sample .htaccess to work.
after adding a few of my own , I just got some default apache page instead of my website.

Its working now, but could you enlighten me on the significance of

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} keywordspy\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} keywordspypro\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} spyfu\.com [NC,OR]

keywordspypro\.com <— does not have [NC,OR]

When I put the [NC,OR] on this line as all the others , thats when it messed up my website and give me the apache page.

here is another to go on the list: Adgooroo. they look pretty serious, so i want to block them.