Comments on: Dumb spiders http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/20/dumb-spiders/ writes on spam and admin issues Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:23:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/20/dumb-spiders/#comment-112 Administrator Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:05:10 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/20/dumb-spiders/#comment-112 I don't know of a way to return 410. I've never seen that in my logs. Besides, it looks to me like the bots are following links. And since there are so many links (because of the spamrun), they're following links over and over. I don’t know of a way to return 410. I’ve never seen that in my logs.

Besides, it looks to me like the bots are following links. And since there are so many links (because of the spamrun), they’re following links over and over.

]]> By: Jacques Distler http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/20/dumb-spiders/#comment-111 Jacques Distler Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:25:12 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/03/20/dumb-spiders/#comment-111 404 is a temporary failure. The Googlebot *should* try again if it encounters a 404. 410 means permanently gone. That's the error code you presumably *meant* to return. 404 is a temporary failure. The Googlebot *should* try again if it encounters a 404.
410 means permanently gone. That’s the error code you presumably *meant* to return.

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