CF_SpamBait

Description: Dynamically creates unique static pages with 500 fake email messages on each page, logs IP information of disobedient robots, sends optional private email to administrator when robots index or follow all of the pages, and inserts an optional "junk" address so you can see which spammers are using the bogus information. James C. Moberg, Creative Communications, Inc. <jmoberg@ccilink.com>

Syntax:
  <CF_SpamBait EMAIL="admin@yourdomain.com" junkemail="junkaddress@yourdomain.com" log="yes/no" Pages="50">

Email = OPTIONAL. Email address to send SpamBait report when robots disobey rules.
JunkEmail = OPTIONAL. The only good email address... for verification purposes.
Log = OPTIONAL. (Default="yes") Keeps an ASCII log containing 3 of retrievals, IP, etc...
Pages = OPTIONAL. (Default=50) The amount of pages that will be created and linked to.

The best thing to do is to create a single cold fusion template with this tag in it and then provide a link to it. The rest is handled automatically by the tag.

NOTE: Alexa Internet used "ia_archiver" to index my site the weekend after I wrote this. Their spider disobeyed the NOFOLLOW-NOINDEX metatags and followed all 50 pages even though Alexa is a member of eTrust and publicly state that they obey the Standard for Robot Exclusion (SRE). (CF_SpamBait created a log file to verify it. The number on the left indicates the number of times that the metatag was ignored by their robot... all 50 times.)

Download: Please go to Allaire's Cold Fusion Tag Gallery to download. Size 2.3k

Example:
Follow this example link. Each page is dynamically created "on-they-fly" to be a static page with a link to a new page. The email addresses (except for some on the first page) are all unique.

Designed and Maintained by
Creative Communications, Inc.