Matt Cutts Buzzzzzt SeoMoz
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





randfish 1791 days ago
http://www.seomoz.orgThanks 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)?
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
Hobo 1790 days ago
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/Great analysis Dave
Mark 1790 days ago
UK WIN!