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Man I hate it when Matt does it to me, but this time it was Rand, He posted What Google Doesn’t See CAN Hurt YouI hadn’t read the comments but I did my own quick check whilst eating lunch .. a Pork Pie actually by the time I had finished the Pie I had decide Rand was wrong and the site was cloaking or doing something silly with the way it serves pages, working a lot on large scale ASP / .net CMS system I see lots of odd things ;)

But I always check a few things, I identify myself as various spiders, use a slightly different variety of the SEO page tool and to see how the server responds, ibl’s etc etc and this server was well … misbehaving a little

Now the question I would be asking if I was Matt is why when I look at the page that is listed in your Sitemap XML from home computer I get a 301 but if I a GoogleBbot goes it gets a 404, shouldn’t you be serving the same content to everyone :) and lets say if I was Matt would I be digging a little into the Press Releases and the content on the database side ?

I not blaming Rand don’t get me wrong I’m sure he asked the owner first I mean in this day and age you really have to be careful cause Google is everywhere and knows everything… well 98%

DaveN

4 Comments

  • randfish 1791 days ago

    http://www.seomoz.org

    Thanks for the help Dave – yeah it was frustrating to find that they were cloaking even further than just user-agent, and thus it required hitting from Port 80 in addition.

    BTW – Did link over to that tool (which I’m guessing surfs as Googlebot from Port 80)?

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  • DaveN 1791 days ago

    the tool that is open to public doesn’t pretend to be anything just analyse the page I could upgrade the public version i guess to do multi domains and UA cloaking..

    Dave

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  • Hobo 1790 days ago

    http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/

    Great analysis Dave

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  • Mark 1790 days ago

    UK WIN!

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