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Originally Posted by cfinlayson
This is a bit of a problem for us, however, as we don't want our competition to be able to go in to the .asp site map, which is linked in the footer of every page of our site, and pull down our entire dealer list in a matter of minutes.
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Why worry about them? They should be worried about you, right?
You just found out that anything that is viewable by the public is viewable by your competition as well.
Anybody generating leads working sales with your competition will undoubtedly troll through your 'store finder' function.
This looks like a niche industry something tells me the major players have found just about every legitimate distributor in North America as it is.
Unfortunately what you're looking to do is mutually exclusive. You cannot adveritise on behalf of your distributors and conceal it from your competition at the same time. You'll have to choose one or the other. My feeling is that your distributors will be happy anytime the phone rings and they find that they're receiving leads because of your website.