Comments on: Firefox: Changing User Agents to Get Access to Extra Content

By: Skippy

Skippy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:49:07 +0000

There is a reason why they do that.
The reason why some member-only sites allow Googlebot to see the info, but not a regular person, is because the genuine Googlebot will collect the information and post it on Google, and these sites really want it because it would attract more people to become members.

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:01:21 +0000

My forum http://www.clan-sparta.6forum.biz is set up for googlebot, but it wont work.

By: timmy g

timmy g — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:59:42 +0000

thank you! firefox forever!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:30:58 +0000

Well this strategy works, I used it and its great

By: اس ام اس عاشقانه اس ام اس جدید

اس ام اس عاشقانه اس ام اس جدید — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:22:29 +0000

Very good
Thanks

By: Elliptical Guide

Elliptical Guide — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:09:26 +0000

I wonder if it will work at my site: http://ellipticalfitnessequipment.org/

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:11:33 +0000

i really see no reason sites
should treat googlebot and normal visitors any different and so i see
no problem doing this

there should not be search results in google if you cannot actually access the information

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Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:20:31 +0000

Hi. I’m a different person. Not the other guy who uses this account.

I figured I would add two helpful hints.

1) If you visit ipchicken.com , you can see what user agent your browser is sending. There are plenty of other sites that do this, but this is one of the easiest to remember. Your user agent is displayed after the “browser:” field.

This should aid people who are having problems. It will either affirm that you have switched the user agent correctly, or affirm that you haven’t.

2) You can achieve something similar to the goal of the recipe by using google cache. The advantage is not having to switch your user-agent back and forth. The disadvantage is that google cache is usually quite ugly. It is also sometimes out of date.

It’s been mentioned already, but some people don’t seem to understand. This only works for sites that are specifically set up to allow googlebot but no one else besides members. Test that you are set up correctly on the site mentioned in the recipe. It is guaranteed to work (or so I assume. haven’t tried it myself.) For any other site, this trick might work, might not.

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Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:27:37 +0000

Ok, I downloaded the plugin for firefox and typed EXACTLY Googlebot 2.1 in the create useragent. I set it as [color=red]Googlebot 2.1[/color in the description and name, but, it wont work on ANY site I go too! Help please.. :(

By: risherz

risherz — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:39:26 +0000

bugmenot wrote:

You really need to remove the direct link you have from this site to the example site. The way you have it now it will show up in their referrer logs and they may possibly follow it back and learn of the small exploit and close it up.

I took the liberty of creating a redirect for you:
http://shortenthis.com/zzdtbgl

Wow, I completely overlooked the fact that they could trace this! Thanks so much bugmenot! I’ve corrected the link.

Great idea of redericting the url… sometimes I totally forget about those things… hopefully the people at digg didn’t read the comments… because many people have posted comments on where you can test this out :( Hmm… but i still wonder if they will close this, the reason why they get a lot of visitors is probably because of this. But, you never know…

Thanks again :wink:
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