hello, google has been sending mass visitors to my website which result in buring up my brandwidth... also this cause me a another problem.... people from google directly jump to the download link and not visit the main page.... so how can i stop google from sending mass visitors.... please tell me the htaccess code to redirect peoples who come from google and msn so that i dont run out of brandwidth this month...
bandwidth limit - thats like 1990 style'n and if you have cPanel go to redirects and type in the page the visitors come in at, and the page you want to send them to... however, i still think this will take up bandwidth cuz your server has to use bandwidth to redirect them xD if all else fails just change you SEO meta tags and reduce your off-page SEO, but it'll take a week or so for google to stop linking to you --------------- and you can't stop people coming to your site from google, msn or yahoo if you'd like redirect them to my site depending on the type of customers... and im guessing from your name they're not the kind of customers i want
lol i dont want to lose the visitors... but i want them to come from the main link.. but google send them directly to the download page... so they download and not view the other pages.... its not really a brandwidth problem but still they eating my brandwidth without even viewing the website.... and so i get no clicks on the ads.... nor i get any sale because of this.... so i am looking for some kind of htaccess codes that will force all users to come from the main page.... so is that possible... and if possible then please give me the codes....
Try this: http://rauru.com/2008/04/why-you-should-have-a-robotstxt-in-your-sites/ You can set up a robots.txt file and tell Google not to crawl your download page. Google will have it deindexed and people will have to browse your site to find that page. Remember to undo this once you no longer need to "hide" that page from SEs.
Contact your host that you need more bandwith, Google sending too much traffic wow, this is a problem many of us would love to have.
lol send em my way i'll be glad to have em. The only way is to use cookies or php sessions for ex a if the ref url not your website return to indexpage... But in php, it would do the trick nicely. Google this $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] if you know a lil bout php.
I wish I had that problem.. Sounds like its time for a new host or a larger hosting plan. You could always put your download on a new page, and just soak up the traffic on that page.
hmmm. just set no follow/no index in download pages. so google will not send visitors directly to your download page or set download limit per day or check if the visitor from google then redirect them to other pages.
Use this: <META NAME="Googlebot" CONTENT="nofollow"> or create a robots.txt file on your server and add: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /~joe/whatever-page-you-want.php To allow a single robot User-agent: Google Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /
robots.txt in my opinion is the best solution, you might as well exclude that download page in robots.txt
.htaccess Make is so the file is unavailable IF the referring page isn't on your site? SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://www.site.com/thedoanloadloactionhere" locally_linked=1 SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://site.com/thedoanloadloactionhere" locally_linked=1 SetEnvIf Referer "^$" locally_linked=1 <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|php)$"> Order Allow,Deny Allow from env=locally_linked </FilesMatch> PHP: html|htm|php etc, are the files, pages, you don't want to be accessed without local invocation. MIght want to test that before you use it THe robot.txt will work too, but I've found waiting for results to the robot files can take a long time across all the search engines.
Maybe I'm wrong, but. See the exact title of the page they're being directed to. Rename that page to a new page you build, with a link to the index.html, then, let then go from there to the page they've been going to, That you had renamed when you followed the other part of the idea in my first sentence. I think that will solve your problem.
Shut up people with the "I'd love to have this problem" thats a waste of a post, you are lucky I dont report you! Read what he is saying, its not a bandwidth problem nor does he want to get rid of the people, it is the problem that google is sending them to an internal page instead of the homepage (skipping his advertisements). Hey man, I think the redirect is your best bet for ease and ensurity.
Interesting never thought of using .htaccess And yes disallowing spidering of those pages would be very foolish.
Yes, it's a good way to keep the rank and keep the page viewable, but enforce the site flow. There are a lot of searches that will reveal download pages and they're usually ranked very high. Redirect to a login or whatever your requirement for access is
thanks buddy i add the robots code in the site and still waiting for the change... but one more question... what is the name of the msn bot or should i use MSNBOT like i use googlebot? and do i have to add the same code in the htaccess file also? or robot.txt will do? and will robot.txt will cause any problem to my visitors??? i have added the file last night and so far i havent got any problem viewing the site.... also i have added leech protected all my files.... anyway thanks for the help as this will save my brandwidth.... the problem is last month i ran out of brandwidth and i had to spend $10 to buy more brandwidth... and also i had to optimize the entire website and encrypt all pages so that serach engines cant grab any keywords agian.... the problem is caused by google and MSN....