Bing, bing, bing.

Can someone please explain to me why Microsoft/Bing are spidering sites in large volume, from 65.55.0.0, and not identifying themselves as a bot/spider in their user agent?

While you’re at it…. explain what sort of impact this has on perceived conversion rates when the conversion:impression ratio ends up being a million miles apart.

Here’s a handy piece of code for your stats install (if running inhouse or AWStats or something similar):


<Directory "/path-to-stats-stuff">
Order deny,allow
Deny from 65.55.0.0/255.255.0.0
Allow from all
</Directory>

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  1. Chris Hamilton says:
    August 28, 2009 at 1:08 am

    Interesting… and no Richard.. for once this is NOT SPAM!! lol I came across this today too – http://searchengineland.com/bing-continues-with-fake-referrers-what-part-of-stop-dont-they-understand-24589

    Pretty interesting.

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