Did you know that by using SEO Quake the wrong way, you can be temporarily banned from using Google search? Asking for parameters at Google too quickly will cause it and if you have SEO Quake turned on in your Firefox browser, here are settings you should know about:
I love SEO Quake and run it only on request. That’s easy to do and it keeps you safe from not being able to search Google.
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Hi Tyler I have been using SEO Quake for quite some time now and didn’t realise Google would ban you if used incorrectly. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Andrew, They don’t ban you, but you might be timed out for a while, like put into the corner.
That used to happen when you had all of the stats appear immediately for every search result. There were just too many queries at once.
Now, you can set the search bar under the results to only appear when you click them. So, you’re doing it one at a time, and perhaps not all of them. Google doesn’t mind that a single bit.
Pat
Hi, in a recent experience i have compiled a list of about a thousand local businesses from a government database.
For about a week i have Google’d relentlessly every single business to find out their websiite and contact email address so that i could pin-point with a certain accuracy which business to contact that might have a reasonable need for a web designer.I would say in a day i’d Google about 100+ businesses and on average i would start having to type a captcha every 10-15 searches, but i have never been banned, even while having SEOquake on at all times on Chrome OS.I don’t think you can be “banned” from searching, however you can be locked out by a number of services due to potentially being suspected of being a robot. Google is the most lenient, only requiring to type in a captcha, however the Whois database is the real tough guy. There is a limit of a certain number of Whois look-ups (no matter what service you use, the database is the same), and once you are over that limit you will be locked out until the next day.The Pagerank service is another one that might occasionally lock you out from checking too many page ranks, but usually it’s not that bad as long as you don’t use the same IP. I’m on a dynamic IP at my office so i don’t worry about it, but i have Comcast at home so i’d have to switch my box off and on every now and then, thou it never came to that.
huh… I have. Not banned from search, but shut down for a short period. “Too many requests” was the error. So, I’d just wait awhile and it was good. But if you have SEO Quake turned on all the time and search a ton of pages and let it grab all the PR, backlinks, and indexed pages for every site on the search page… I think you’ll get at least the captcha. (Which may be new because that never happened to me.)
Thanks for your input, Fabio!
Pat