Pulled over by the Google Sheriff

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Admittedly I'm new to all of this.

And my focus is backlinking a new site I built.

So I was reading where I could find places to post on high PR blogs by typing in certain phrases. And I thought hey! That makes sense so lets do it. I don't currently have any backlink finding tools and very little experience at all of this and am having to do it manually.

Here's the phrase I typed in to google while having my returns set to 100 and SEOquake running.

site:.edu inurl:blog

I was impressed that it brought up a bunch of high pr blogs and thought dang this is some cool stuff. But they all had the comments turned off so I thought well lets go 8 pages in. That will put me 800 returns down and I'll have a look at those.

But when I reached down to the bottom and clicked for page 8 of the returns instead I got a window from google that wanted me to type in a captcha type phrase. So I clicked the why do I have to do this button and it told me they thought I was a robot

For the next 10 minutes every search I tried to do did that

What does this new bee need to do in the future? Use Yahoo? Avoid Google?

What?

I need back links for my poorly performing new bee site

Help an old man out OK?
#search engine optimization #google #pulled #sheriff
  • IF you have SEOQuake installed that could be the reason..
    If it is SEOQuake change the loadbar parameters to on request..
  • Google has started getting very stringent on their "anti-bot" searches, which is what you have run into there. It used to be that these were pretty hard to trip, I could search for hours without ever getting a captcha, but now days they seem to be given a lot easier. It really isn't the number of pages you searched but rather the search term that you were using.

    The more in depth of a search you go, for instance if you did something like:

    You would most likely get the captcha a lot quicker than you did with this search term.

    It usually only lasts about 15 minutes or so, before the captcha's go away and it is a temporary ip block to make sure that a human is entering the queries not a scraping program like Scrapebox or one of the others.

    Really nothing to worry about but it can be pretty annoying. The only way around it, that I know of, is by using private proxies and rotating your proxies every so often to avoid searching from the same IP.
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  • I keep reading about scrapebox and some of these other automated programs. I take it that if I were to use one, I could avoid these problems?

    Can google get your Internet provider to shut down your connection? I don't mean to sound paranoid but it just blew me away that they knew just what I was doing.
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    • Ummm, they could be avoided to an extent. I mean you can still get IP's temporarily blocked and what not, but overall that is what Scrapebox was designed to do. In other words, you could load in a selection of private proxies, as well as your footprints or search terms and go out and scrape thousands of sites from google, yahoo etc.

      Scrapebox grabs a random proxy from your list every time it makes a connection to the internet, so your ip is constantly changing. Which results in fewer queries per each IP and fewer temporary IP blocks like what you have experienced while at the same time you are able to collect a lot more data.

      In regards to the Internet connection being terminated, I have never seen or heard of that happening. I have tripped these captcha's on Google more times than I care to count and have never so much as received a nasty email.

      Google really isn't out to get you with these, its more like a warning that says "Hey we don't want you botting our search results, running automated queries, etc. so cool it down a bit". So they make you enter a captcha to make sure you are a human and usually let you go on your way.
  • Quick trick....Go to google and type "whats my ip" copy that ip to notepad.
    Unplug your modem from the phone port or cable socket ie at the wall and leave it out for 3 mins or so. Then plug it back in and wait for it to detect. Refresh your browser... Bang! you now have a new ip adress.
    most internet providers will assign a new ip adress if they detect that the connection is dead....
  • Why don't you just outsource your backlink building? Save yourself time that you can invest in other aspects of your site. Check out my sig for more info.
  • Banned
    It's no big deal, just use Chrome , If you get another captcha close the browser session & open another Incognito browser.

    Repeat as needed...






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