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A Post on the Search Industry Blog
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, December 1st, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Even if you have a lot of trouble staying up to date with search industry news you probably heard about the owner of www.webmasterworld.com (Brett) blocking all robots via the robots.txt file on his server. Why would someone who receives that much traffic from search engines block all of them? Could it be that his website is really having problems dealing with all the robots? What about the robots that don’t care about the robots.txt file? I wonder if he enjoys all the attention he is getting and if the amount of traffic he received because of his choice makes up for the traffic he will not get from search engines?
There! I did my best to pretend that it was news, to pretend that his reasons are mysterious/unfounded and to pretend that his website might suffer from a loss in traffic. Should I have acted emotional about this issue as well? I would fit in with the people expressing their feelings of sadness, anger and depression as a response to his announcement.
In case you have no clue what I am talking about, go read every comment in this thread at WebmasterWorld. By the way, you will have to create an account before you can read anything. I love it when forums make me login first because I feel like I am get to be part of their community.
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