How to know a hosting blocking google bot

charlesgan · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 12:38 PM

how can i know if a hosting is blocking a google bot.
or periodically blocking it.

i having a hosting with godaddy, regardless how many seo effort.
and new content, it just wont ranked well.

i seen in forum, that previously few year back. godaddy is doing the bot blocking.. so save traffic. i like to find out if this is happening again.

**Cricket** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 12:55 PM

Long thread on this topic here ...
http://www.v7n.com/forums/google-for...googlebot.html

WebGeek182 · #3 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 04:39 PM

Wow, I just read that thread, Cricket - GoDaddy is ridiculous. That is a horrible policy!

charlesgan · #4 (**permalink**) 06-20-2007, 11:55 PM

i think once i made a post at that thread. ya its horrible...
but thats seem like date back to 11-28-2003
are godaddy still blocking bots???

cause i got a website, which got 190 google backlink, and 13k yahoo backlinks.... cant get rank well. with many seo, and also in page seo.
stuck at position 40+. which is very annoying. The competitor is nothing, just a few small kitty cat.

lately i did some research about hoster blocking bot, and also how poor server effecting ranking. seem like i am in that big hole now. trying to get myself escape.

Jesse Vlasveld · #5 (**permalink**) 06-21-2007, 12:18 AM

The easiest is to simply move away from them. Although that could form a problem at some hosts..

podcast · #6 (**permalink**) 06-21-2007, 01:38 AM

How can I learn that my host is blocking Google bots? Is it specified somewhere in the TOS?

Affnice · #7 (**permalink**) 06-21-2007, 03:27 AM

wow just know that Godaddy block googlebot

charlesgan · #8 (**permalink**) 06-21-2007, 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesse Vlasveld

The easiest is to simply move away from them. Although that could form a problem at some hosts..

yup.. definately i am working with that. ASAP.. i am out.
also...taking this migration opportunity to add a blog and forum to my website.

i cant do many with godaddy, because they having the 250 emails daily limit. which is too low. and have to pay extra if you need use more email.

in the house

MisterA · #9 (**permalink**) 07-22-2007, 10:42 AM

wow man..... a host blocking google bots.....thats ridiculous...... thanks for the info......

alemcherry · #10 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 06:13 AM

You can use webmaster tools and sitemaps. They will report any problems in crawling your site. I dontthink godaddy or anyone will block google.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...overview?pli=1

BOptiz · #11 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 06:27 AM

But, Why GoDaddy blocks google?

fermiop · #12 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BOptiz

But, Why GoDaddy blocks google?

I don't think it's possible.