Comments on: Googlebot accounts for one fourth of my page hits!

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:12:21 +0000

Well, this petition doesn’t ask google to share this service. I think that’s a lot to ask.

What is needed is an easy to install, widely supported, accessible reverse Turing test for wordpress.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:15:18 +0000

http://www.petitiononline.com/captcha/ ? Maybe that will convince Google to share it’s own service.

By: Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:50:22 +0000

I just tested it with Firefox 1.5 under Linux and pressing new ID doesn’t reset the form.

Thanks for the great link!

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:47:02 +0000

Hmm, sorry to be distracting you from your topic…

Unfortunately, I don’t a any great tips. Perhaps you can plugin into http://akismet.com/ ?

I’m using Firefox 1.07 (Debian/Sarge flavour). I’ve not used IE since version 4.0 or something – did it get any better?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:54:47 +0000

I just tested it, and at least under Konqueror, the “new ID” button doesn’t clear the form. I suspect that this is a browser-specific issue. Hope you aren’t using IE?

I’d like to have an audio clue, but I won’t code it myself. I lack time. Blind people can’t comment on my blog. But they can email me.

I’m all hears if you have better alternatives to prevent spam bots from spamming me!

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:40:28 +0000

We need more pings!

Actually, use a google sitemap: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

I’m not completely sure, but I think it should relieve the bots from crawling your site when nothing changes.

P.S.: I couldn’t see the captcha (and didn’t notice before writing my comment). But before I pressed the button to get a new ID, I was wise enough to copy my comment. Pressing new ID clears the whole form. Also, it’s not very friendly to people with diminished vision. I generally discourage the use of image captchas. And this one seems like it’s oursourced, it should at least provide an audio clue. Oh well…