A grabber visited my site. Is this bad?

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by Acer, Jun 9, 2006.

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    For the first time since I started tracking this particular parameter six months ago, I had a visiting browser tagged as a "grabber" in my logs. The grabber was wget.

    I know it's just once among thousands of visits, but I'm a little paranoid of my content getting grabbed and diluting my serps. Should I do anything about it?
     
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    May be a scraper or something else but you should block them via .htaccess either way:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR]
    RewriteRule .* - [F]
     
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