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SEO_Killer_ _Server_Log_Files
| SEO Killer - Server Log Files
It is very important for every website owner to collect
information about visitors, their behavior, how they move on the
website, which interests the have and how long time they spend
on which pages. Web servers collect those information and save
them in log files. The most of hosting provider are offering
software to report the visitor traffic on theire customer
websites. If you have such application in use and you are
interested in search engine optimization, this article may help
you to avoid losing search engine positions or being banned.
A friend of mine had a website offering valuable information
about human health. His website was till Febr. 2005 one of the
best ranked sites the last few years. One month ago he started
to complain about visitors fall although he didn't change his
optimized search engine friendly concept. So we started to
search for the possible reasons. His more than 40 keywords first
positions were suddenly dropped from search engines results. It
didn't need a long time to find out that his log files were all
indexed in all of major search engines. After checking his log
files I could find a plenty of links to websites dealing with
medical products.
Some kind people can ask now "What is the problem behind those
links?".. Yes it is a problem.. What would you say if I have a
banned website and ask you to exchange links with me? The all of
those Websites were banned from search engines with a grayed out
PageRank value in Google toolbar. Did you know that a banned
website can exchange links with you without your accordance? The
only thing they have to do is to link to your website. If
somebody clicks on this link, your server adds their url as a
referer to the log files. Your report software shows the referer
as a link to the banned website. Such scene can happen over
night while you sleep.
Search engines such as Google don't make you responsible for
links found over the web linking to your website. But they make
you responsible for links found on your own website. If you link
to a banned site, you risk to be banned too. If you have some
luck your web site will be only punished by losing postions in
the search engine results.
To avoid this risik, protect your log files by using a password,
so that they can not be found or visited by search engine
spider. If you can not do that, ask your hosting provider to do
this step for you.
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