Could my competitors be spamming me?
Your competitors cannot normally change
the content of your Web site if you've kept your password
a secret. However, some Webmasters worry that a competitor
could submit you repetitively, causing your site to get you
blocked on AltaVista. Although this is possible, AltaVista
claims that they account for that scenario. Here's an excerpt
from issue #40 of the Search Engine Watch report ( http://www.searchenginewatch.com
). Tracy Roberts, AltaVista's marketing director, was being
interviewed:
"If your pages are gone, and if you
get a 'Too many URLs at that site have been submitted today'
message when resubmitting, then there's a pretty good chance
AltaVista has decided you were spamming them. If you disagree,
then you should get in contact using AltaVista's feedback
form. 'We are monitoring those, so that when a request is
made, we will go in and look at the site,' Roberts said."
Could someone be oversubmitting your site to make it seem as if you were spamming? Perhaps, but Roberts said, "AltaVista has mechanisms to check on this." Personally, I would hope that AltaVista does not attempt to ban sites based solely on their number of submissions. If so, there are many ways this could be abused by unethical competitors.
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