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Old 01-08-2006, 11:40 AM
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Default Blocking a country IP address does it harm???
Our business is totally export and we are worried that a few local companies in Thailand are starting to follow our ideas in regards to our products.

I want to know the following.

If we put a block on our website for anyone in Thailand from viewing our website will this harm our rankings?

Can anyone advise how you block a site from being viewed in a particular area if indeed it is possible??

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Old 01-08-2006, 03:32 PM
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You can block it, but it won't stop anyone from viewing your pages in Google, except if you can stop Google from caching your pages, which means you'll loose ranking since you'd have to exclude Google from indexing your pages.

I'm not sure whether there is a way to tell Google not to cache pages (I'm talking about the search page cache).

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Old 01-08-2006, 06:31 PM
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You can stop Google from caching your pages by inserting the following into each page you do not want it to cache:
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<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
Google help on this matter
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There is also archive.org which caches apges for years, and I don't think they'll remove them if requested, but I'm not sure. Of course not alot of people know this except for web designers.
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Old 01-09-2006, 03:11 AM
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You can stop Google from caching your pages by inserting the following into each page you do not want it to cache:
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<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
Google help on this matter
The problem is, it will hurt their ranking, which is what they don't want to happen!

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The problem is, it will hurt their ranking, which is what they don't want to happen!
How will it hurt their ranking?
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Old 01-09-2006, 09:15 AM
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The <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> tag does this mean that it is just not available for the viewer searcing to see it or does it mean that it is not in google data base?
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Old 01-09-2006, 09:19 AM
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Aha. Ok, so you can have indexed pages without it being cached, great (I suspected such a solution existed). Now you just have to specifically block the IP range, and I'm not sure how to do that...

I can only imagine it hurting your ranking if Google's got a Thai bot running around the net ;-) (No serious...)

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Old 01-09-2006, 09:24 AM
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Sorry let me post it again. I was asking

If a page is Not Cached will Google still keep this page indexed in their data base?
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If a page is Not Cached will Google still keep this page indexed in their data base?
Yes, I have many pages that I have used the "NOARCHIVE" in & they are indexed & included in Google's SERPs.
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I think this is default.

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">

<META NAME="googlebot" CONTENT="index,follow,archive">

So if you exclude the tags above, that will be the effect.

You may block archiving (caching) as said above:

<META NAME="googlebot" CONTENT="index,follow,noarchive">

Do you mix the Google index and the Google archive?
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