«

Hello,

Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?

Any help appreciated, Wm

<> skrev i meddelandet
news: oups.com...
> Hello,
>
> Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
> picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
> publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?
>
> Any help appreciated, Wm

You could use https and then protect those pages by using a password.
As search engines do not know the password they could not come in...

--
Luigi Donatello Asero
https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/it/svezia.html
谢谢ä½*, Ñ�паÑ�ибо, tack sÃ¥ mycket!

Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> <> skrev i meddelandet
> news: oups.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
>> picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
>> publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?
>>
>> Any help appreciated, Wm
>
> You could use https and then protect those pages by using a password.
> As search engines do not know the password they could not come in...

No, then his eBay auctions would not be viewable from eBay... https is
*not* what you think it is...

Put eBay auction files in a folder and use a robot.txt file to indicate
that that folder is not to be indexed. Google "robot.txt" for syntax...

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> Put eBay auction files in a folder and use a robot.txt file to indicate
> that that folder is not to be indexed. Google "robot.txt" for syntax...

That would be robots.txt, with an "s". When you've googled, be sure to
read the part about robots.txt not working with misbehaving spiders.

--
John

John Hosking wrote:

>> Put eBay auction files in a folder and use a robot.txt file to indicate
>> that that folder is not to be indexed. Google "robot.txt" for syntax...
>
> That would be robots.txt, with an "s". When you've googled, be sure to
> read the part about robots.txt not working with misbehaving spiders.

.... and where the file has to go. I doubt the OP can write to that section
of ebay's site.

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

"Luigi Donatello Asero" <> wrote in message
news:hJDVg.19304$...
>
> <> skrev i meddelandet
> news: oups.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
>> picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
>> publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?
>>
>> Any help appreciated, Wm
>
> You could use https and then protect those pages by using a password.
> As search engines do not know the password they could not come in...
>

The 's' means "secure". IE will show a little icon like a padlock when
you're on a secure site.
Password protection is no good for public auctions.

<> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> Hello,
>
> Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
> picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
> publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?
>
> Any help appreciated, Wm
>

"Your" pages?
If it's an actual auction listed on the ebay site, then you are at their
mercy.
Chances are if you try to install any coding at all, and ebay found out,
you'd be kicked off.
Then how you would do it if you don't have access to the root of the domain
where that stuff would go?

David Dorward wrote:
> John Hosking wrote:
>
>>> Put eBay auction files in a folder and use a robot.txt file to indicate
>>> that that folder is not to be indexed. Google "robot.txt" for syntax...
>> That would be robots.txt, with an "s". When you've googled, be sure to
>> read the part about robots.txt not working with misbehaving spiders.
>
> ... and where the file has to go. I doubt the OP can write to that section
> of ebay's site.
>
I think the OP does what I do, host my own images for eBay rather than
use eBay's serverice to host them so the imagea and/or parts of the
auction page are on his server not eBay's. So he could prevent the
indexing of -his- eBay folder.

And yes, a typo, should have been 'robots.txt'

And to misbehaving spiders, if they don't play by the rules then there
is not much you can do...except maybe redirect in an .htaccess entry for
the little bugger. But you would have to trap the user agent of each
misbehaving spider.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

richard wrote:
>
> "Luigi Donatello Asero" <> wrote in message
> news:hJDVg.19304$...
>>
>> <> skrev i meddelandet
>> news: oups.com...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
>>> picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
>>> publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated, Wm
>>
>> You could use https and then protect those pages by using a password.
>> As search engines do not know the password they could not come in...
>>
> The 's' means "secure".

"Secure" means many things. In this case, it means the stream is
encrypted so that anyone intercepting it on its way between the client
and the server is unable to read it. This has nothing to do with robots
or access.

wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Was wondering if there is any code to keep search engine bots from
> picking up my ebay auction pages and archiveing them, earning them free
> publicity and competing against my off-ebay website ?

I don't understand what it is you're trying to prevent. A search engine
isn't getting publicity from your pages turning up in search results. As
for the competition, it sounds like you don't want your eBay pages
competing against your non-eBay pages. What, you want *fewer* potential
buyers to find the items you're trying to sell?