Updowner is it hurting sites?

@casinobonusguy 239537 wrote:

So i blocked updowner from one of my sites and this morning i got message in webmaster tools saying googlebot is blocked from my site.updowner is only thing we blocked so does this mean updowner is googlebot?

Judy send me your robots.txt to check it ” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />…. it should not block googlebot.
Did you try google fetch to test any url?

You can atually also email them to remove it from their listings and remove the block once they remove the site from their listings..

I did both and so far so good… no changes yet or any issues..

So i blocked updowner from one of my sites and this morning i got message in webmaster tools saying googlebot is blocked from my site.updowner is only thing we blocked so does this mean updowner is googlebot?

@slotsaff 239442 wrote:

Thanks GFPC – I will try the same now ” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />

Your welcome!

Thanks GFPC – I will try the same now ” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />

I emailed them and demanded they remove it right away because google penalized us. They removed them right away.

@belgamo 239427 wrote:

I used a new email address to confirm ownership of sites and had them removed, and it worked!. Now will see if they sell off this email address.

It says I have to download a file and add to the site – did you do that?!

I used a new email address to confirm ownership of sites and had them removed, and it worked!. Now will see if they sell off this email address.

@fonzi 239390 wrote:

@slotsaff, DO NOT use this or you’ll block all bots including Google.

Is this the viable option then?

• Meta tags.
The noindex meta standard is described at The Web Robots Pages. This method is useful if you don’t have root access to your server, as it allows you to control access to your site on a page-by-page basis.

To prevent all robots from indexing your site, place the following meta tag into the section of your index page:

To prevent only Updownerbot from indexing:

I am going to block them via robots.txt file as a test. I will let you know the results once the links are removed. I do know since seeing them 95% of all our traffic has been gone so its worth a try. Will post results if i see any.

Note: i just found this..

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=updowner.com

Apparently they have malaware and trojans and all kinds of goodies. SOme say this site is not affecting rankings but it certainly does no good.

I have blocked them now – see what happens.

@slotsaff, DO NOT use this or you’ll block all bots including Google.