The Virtual Workforce Company Limited
There are robots crawling the Internet, which you don't want on your site.
One of them is the robot "SBIder" from sitesell.com. Sitesell provides an online service to built optimised web sites using robots (spiders) to crawl competitor web sites. The purpose is to analyse top ranking web sites in order to find out what they are doing to be on the top of the search engines. Basically it is about checking out the competition.
As this is something most likely every successful webmaster has to do (check out the competition), I personally do not like the fact that it is done automatically. Others may disagree with me.
We have pretty good rankings for a lot of our clients web sites. They paid good money for our work and research. In the last few days I found the robot "SBIder" in the log files of the most successful web sites. Checking it out I found sitesell.com and the following IP address range: 64.34.145.194 - 64.34.145.207. IP addresses may change over time and you should do a whois query on the IP address to get the latest data, when you find SBIder in your server logs.
To secure our clients advantage we just blocked the IP range with the servers firewall. I don't give it any chance that somebody using that kind of software is analysing and copying our work to compete against our clients.
If you know of similar robots, please let us know.
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