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From: "Forrest Plumstead" <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] ads in guestbook
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:46:00 -0600
References: <200601280600.k0S60Jma006274@lists2.rootsweb.com> <200601280600.k0S60Jma006274@lists2.rootsweb.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20060128083054.03ed8ff0@mail.ee.net>


Well Pat it has been three days since I took your advice and not one spam.
My sister was googling one day and found my page and signed my **clean**
guestbook!

Forrest Plumstead
Researching the following Surnames:
Bushouse, Plumstead, Risser, Schroeder, Senne, Thayer,
Quaker Families: Coppock, Heald, Hobson, Hollingsworth, Potts, Ross, Watt
Plumstead and Associated Families:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum/
Military Kool Lynx: http://geocities.com/fplum/
Ham Radio WB5HQO http://forrest.3h.com/main.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Asher" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] ads in guestbook


> At 06:14 AM 1/28/2006, Ruth Mather wrote:
> >Yesterday when I checked my guestbook, I found about 10 "ads" (an html
> >page in text, something about music). I deleted them all but am
wondering
> >how this was done? Did some music site single out my guestbook as a good
> >place for advertising, or is this done by "robot" & if so, how can it be
> >prevented?
>
> It is done by robot -- some "planting" URLS to improve Google rankings,
> others just plain spam.
>
> The easiest solution is to rename your guestbook INPUT page so the URL the
> bot has is no longer correct. I would also suggest you give it a name
that
> is less obvious than guestbook.html Try something like
> ruthsgb.html
> sitecoms.html
> newgb.html
>
> Remember to change any links to your guestbook to the new location/file
name.
>
> Pat
>
>
>
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