It's mostly about luring them into URLs they're explicitly told in robots.txt that they shouldn't index. I do some identification via reverse DNS of known crawlers I actually want like Googlebot, though they respect robots.txt, in case something goes wrong and they accidentally get flagged.
It's mostly about luring them into URLs they're explicitly told in robots.txt that they shouldn't index. I do some identification via reverse DNS of known crawlers I actually want like Googlebot, though they respect robots.txt, in case something goes wrong and they accidentally get flagged.