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 Any downside to install a Honey Pot?
Author: D.White12   (17 Dec 10 9:49am)
I've got 2 questions, but I'm going to break them up into 2 separate posts....

My 1st question:
I just installed a honey pot on one of my websites. I'm wondering if there's any downside to doing this, such as Google penalizing us for such links within our site that is clearly not for human visitors.
 
 Re: Any downside to install a Honey Pot?
Author: F.Heinzmann   (19 Dec 10 7:47pm)
I don't think you have to worry about Google. I had that concern when I first started and was told it was not a problem. My website page ranks in Google are reasonable and did not change as a result of adding a honeypot.
 
 Re: Any downside to install a Honey Pot?
Author: M.Bishof   (21 Dec 10 5:43am)
just put a nofollow or noindex command in the link. Google etc. will respect that without penalty but the bad ones will follow that link.
So there is no downside since we do not try to fake anything.
 
 Re: Any downside to install a Honey Pot?
Author: A.E4   (26 Feb 11 4:16am)
Thanks I had wondered this myself before and I too have not seen any negative effects of using this which made me happy.
 
 Re: Any downside to install a Honey Pot?
Author: D.D'Agostino   (19 Apr 11 1:43pm)
can you guys explain how to do this for a wordpress site? (noindex, nofollow)
 
 Re: Any downside to install a Honey Pot?
Author: A.Degives Mas   (14 May 11 11:05pm)
Use the "Easy Noindex And Nofollow" plugin, it's in the canonical WP plugin repository at wordpress.org/extend/plugins - however, using that you only allow or deny access to posts or pages, i.e. your dynamic URIs are not affected.

What I personally do is to use a combination of things; probably the easiest for you is to use robots.txt and in that file flat out deny access to anything that is not a canonical URI.

To get you started, here's what I might have in a robots.txt file:
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: *?
Disallow: *&
Disallow: *%
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-content
Disallow: /wp-includes
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
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Note that reference to the sitemap file in the last line, which may be another tool in your belt. Else, don't include it.



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