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Last night I implemented a bot trap that I coded up in PHP on one of my sites. Its just a little bit of code saved into a page thats linked off the index.php of my website. I used robots.txt to disallow access for bots that follow the rules and used empty anchor text for the link so that it would be invisible to human eyes. What the bot trap basically does is record any access to the file and logs the IP by sending an email and then automatically appends to the .htacces file a deny from that IP which effectively blocks any further access coming from that IP address. Be careful this works really well I actually ended up blocking my IP address from testing the system out and had to manually edit the .htaccess file via FTP to unblock myself. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I want to share some very handy and FREE keyword tools.

Google Adwords Keyword Suggest - A free keyword research tool provided by google.

Wordtrackers FREE Keyword Tool - The free version only lets you get 100 quality keywords at a time.

45n5 Keyword Scrubber - Keyword Scrubber scrubs large lists of keywords and removes junk like swear words, keywords over 50 characters, and duplicates. Very handy for making nice and tidy keyword lists.

Domainsbot is a great little web 2.0 app you type in domain keywords and it comes up with a list of potential domain names using your keywords and related terms it also tells you if the domain is available or not i’ve found this to be very useful when I run out of ideas for new domain names.