GG, That's great news and a big relief. Thanks very much. |thumb

I have to say this thread really motivated Tart and I to do something that we've been putting off for quite a while and that is updating some of our freesites. I really have subscribed to the build submit tweak and forget mode of work but we realized that we have a multitude of sites out there.. some with PR and some with none.. but it doesn't matter because they are all linked somewhere and someone is peeping at them.

so this thread has motiviated us to take a look, update the sponsors since several of them bit the dust with the last round of 2257 freak show and really tighten up with keywords etc. Where they have fallen off--and lets be clear here--a six month self life is really the average, not the exception--we are resubmitting them and have added in several new LL that weren't even around back when we first built them.

You'll notice that Tart has improved greatly on her color palet these days. :D

So while some may have looked upon this thread as a "negative" -- we really appreciate the additional motivation that it inspired.

I have a sign that has been over my desk for the last 5 years--something i learned from Ramster -- it says BUILD.. today i put in small letters "re-build"

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WHAWHAWHATTT? :D

Oh don't worry, I'll be sure to sneak in one that requires you putting your shades on now and again. :D

I don't know why that would have caused a problem. Unless maybe it was misunderstood/mistaken for something else. All it should do is tell a bot how long to wait between crawls. The crawl-delay only works when supported, which I believe is by the bots for some search engines: Yahoo, MSN, Ask, etc. (It's not supported by Google's bots I believe... anyone know for sure?)

I could see someone getting upset at things you might do with the noindex, nofollow, disallow directives. But a crawl-delay of 20 seconds can't be used to do anything nasty/tricky as far as I know... and someone please correct me if I'm missing something here.

I had a trawl through my various freesites as well, many domains have been on the "set and forget" thing for a while.

I've discovered that my domain http://www.naked-men-for-women.com/ is on the blacklist for a 404... not sure why, it was probably ages ago.

Anyway, can someone take it off the list?

http://www.naked-men-for-women.com/ shows "INACTIVE" when I look it up so you're already off of there :)

Ah, so that's what it means.
* Looks a little sheepish*
Cool.

Me too! Usefulscripts has mine as: '1 block' reason: 'bad se implications'
The term 'usefulscripts' is an oxymoron since it's not very useful when you try to appeal. So if any of you guys have me on a blacklist...
Please let me know why? Think I shot myself in the foot by mentioning this before as all my sites vanished from LOR and SG.
Found out google dropped it (although it's still on msn and yahoo)
Those engines have higher alexa ratings anyway... Right?
Also did that domaintool thingy mentioned earlier and the blacklist there says 'clear'. The only thing I can think of is I have the same domain name (with hyphens) that points to the main page on this one. Is that considered a 'doorway'?
Also, if it IS... Do I win the prize for the dumbest newbie question of the day? Thanks for any advice! Christopher