Also note that, while many web marketing firms now do some sort or another
of "page switching" (they call it "optimization") for spiders, the search
engines themselves frown on it, and will ding you if they catch you. 

Having said that,
http://www.searchenginewatch.internet.com/webmasters/spiderchart.html is a
page dedicated specifically to listing the agent and host names of common
search spiders. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbowen(at)rcbowen.com]

"Leland V. Lammert" wrote:
> I recently learned of a product that is supposed to recognize a robot by
it's IP and then serve a custom page designed to meet the criteria for that
specific search engine to index, while normal users receive the standard
index.html. Has anyone heard of anything like this?

It's a shame that people feel that they have to cheat to get ahead of
the system. I fail to see how a dishonestly indexed site is beneficial
to the user.

---------------------------------------------------------
Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
www.captura.com

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