[WARNING] - DO NOT USE THIS TOOL - SERPAnalytics

SERPAnalytics (FireFox Plugin)

Got me banned from Google & Yahoo! from just 2 uses. Now I'm stuck with BING till the ban drops.

Anyone know how long those bans last? It isn't like I can GOOGLE IT!!! lol

 

Do you mind if I ask how you have qualified this? Something does not really add up here.

thanks,
Nigel

 

It does add up. Google and Yahoo often put temp bans on IPs if they detect a lot of data trying to be gathered in a short space of time i.e checking the PR, indexed pages, backlinks etc of the top 200 search results in one quick swoop.

I'm not sure exactly but i think its about an hour. I usually go off and do something else if I get it!

 

Like any black hat spamming tool you are a fool for not using proxies. Any tool can be dangerous if used improperly like in your case.

 

Ehh, well I did find this which is certainly cause for concern. https://addons.mozilla.org/sq/seamonkey/addon/12143

Nigel

 

I'm not using this plugin so got no experience on been banned, mind to share your activities before been banned so other people can avoid to do so.

 

Well I didn't consider it a blackhat tool since I found it in mozilla firefox plugins while looking for a backlink finder. All I did was query a couple of dental terms.

It's stupid because for some reason by default it searches the first 100 results and tries to get like 10 different SEO properties for each listing. I always thought tools like this did queries on the server side and just fed me the results. I had no idea it was using my freakin' IP.

 

"I had no idea it was using my freakin' IP"

ehhck, clearly the issue here. I also found this which is actually located below this thread.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1271469

Nigel

 

If You wanna gain frm Google.. Dnt try to mess with them .

Anyway, Thanks for the warning though..

Have a great day

 

I wonder how many people will go ahead and ignore this warning and use it anyway, lol

 

I bet it is likely many people will look it up and end up using it, totally forgetting what the OP was talking about.

 

This is not black hat tool.
You can configure it not to download pagerank, not to download backlinks etc. There is help on this topic.
There are many tools like this one, SEOQuake, Seo for firefox, ... All these tools require some configuration.

You can simply change settings, "Search Preferences" -> "SEO Parameters" -> Page Rank -> "primary on demand"
In this case, SEO parameters line shows cached values and allows you to check any of seo parameters by clicking on question mark.

 

Some of the tools don't use proxies, which is almost like an AUTO-ban.