#robot.txt generator

[webseotoolz]

Webseotoolz offers a Free Robot.txt Generator Tool to create a robot text file without any effort Visit: https://webseotoolz.com/robots-txt-generator

[uphamprojects]

Regex Scraping

Follow my Regex Scraping projects or one of the other projects at UphamProjects.com

I have used beautiful soup and it does work beautifully, but I have a preference of not having the library do all the work for me during drafting. Once I’ve fleshed out the script I might replace the regex with a suitable library, but they are more flexible during drafting, at least for me. Below is a more general scraping implementation that my wiki scraping project. It is also much better at…

[raiasintended]

Scraper Bots, Fuck Off! How to "Opt Out" of Your Artistic "Data" Being Used in "Research"

How can artists protect their work from being used by art-generating "AI" bots? How can we take a stand against this continuing, as more and more programmers build their own forks and train derivative models?

Here are a few steps artists can take to keep their work from being used to train new art generators (and one step non-artists can do to help). For the reasoning and explanation behind these steps, click the Read More.

The Method:

Remove images that do not have watermarks. Take down every one of your images that can be accessed publicly and does not have a watermark. (In fact, if you have the resources, take down every image, even those with watermarks, and reupload them with new names or URLs).

Add watermarks to your images and re-upload them. Put a watermark on every image you intend to share publicly. It doesn't have to be huge and obvious, but for best results, it should have text, and if you really want to be a pain in some engineer's neck, it should be colorful. I explain why below the cut. @thatdogmagic has shared an absolutely brilliant watermark method here (https://www.tumblr.com/thatdogmagic/702300132999397376/that-your-audience-wont-hate-this-is-a-method).

Watermark everything. From now on, any image you share publicly should have a watermark.

One host domain only. Strive for keeping your image files on only one domain—for example, tumblr.com, or your personal domain. Again, I explain below the cut.

ADVANCED: Configure your domain's robots.txt. If you have administrative access to your host domain, update your robots.txt file to contain the following: User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /

ADVANCED: Configure your meta-tags. If you have administrative access to your web pages, update your meta-tags to include the following: <meta name="robots" content="nofollow">

ADVANCED: Configure your .htaccess. If you have administrative access to your host domain, update your .htaccess file to prevent hotlinking to images. There are a few ways to achieve this, and a simple tutorial can be found here (https://www.pair.com/support/kb/block-hotlinking-with-htaccess/).

Bullying Campaigning. If you do not have administrative access to your host domain (for example, if you host on tumblr, or deviantart), ask your administrator to block CCBot in the domain's robot.txt, disable hotlinking, or take similar actions to prevent image scraping.

Aggressively pursue takedowns on image sharing sites. The best known sources of this issue are Pinterest and WeHeartIt, but especially focus on Pinterest. The image takedown form for Pinterest can be found here (https://www.pinterest.com/about/copyright/dmca-pin/), and the image takedown form for WeHeartIt can be found here (https://weheartit.com/contact/copyright).

Non-artists: do not reupload images, do not share reuploaded images (no, not even to add the source in comments), do not truck with re-uploaders. If you see an image without a watermark on image share sites like Pinterest, and it doesn't look like the artist themselves pinned it, give them a heads up so they can file a takedown.

The Reasoning:

Why watermarks? Why meta-tags? What good will any of this do?

Below the cut, I explain how these art-generation bots are "trained," and how we can use that information to prevent new bots from training on stolen art.

Those Who Can't, Program

Deep learning models capable of generating images from natural language prompts are growing in both capability and popularity. In plain English: there are bots out there that can generate art based on written (and sometimes visual) prompts. DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney are examples of art-generating "AI" already in use.

These models are trained using large-scale datasets—and I mean, large. Billions of entries large. Because teaching a learning machine requires a lot of examples.

Engineers don't make this data on their own: they acquire datasets from other organizations. Right now, there is no better dataset out there than the Internet, so that's what most engineers use to train their models.

Common Crawl (https://commoncrawl.org) is where most of them go to grab this data in a form that can be presented to a learning model. Common Crawl has been crawling the publicly-accessible web once a month since 2011, and provides archives of this data for free to anyone who requests it. Crucially, these are "text" archives—they do not contain images, but do contain urls of images and descriptions of images, including alt text.

The Common Crawl dataset is, in some form, the primary source used to train learning models, including our art generators.

Nobody Likes Watermarks

Watermarks are one of the easiest and most effective ways to remove your art from the training set.

If the model is trained using the LAION-5B dataset (https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/), for example, there's a good chance your art will be removed from the set to begin with if it has a watermark. LAION-5B is a filtered, image-focused version of the Common Crawl data, with NSFW and watermarked images filtered out.

Using this example provided by the LAION team, we can determine what kind of watermark will ensure your art is filtered from the dataset: partially transparent text placed over the image. Bots trained with data filtered similarly to LAION-5B will not be trained using your images if you use such a watermark.

As a bonus, if you include a watermark in your image and it somehow still makes it into a training set, the additional visual data will skew the training. It will assume any images it generates that are “inspired” by yours should include similar shapes and colors. The bot doesn’t actually understand what a watermark is and assumes it’s a natural element of the image.

404 Art Not Found

The reason we want to remove and re-upload images with new URLs is simple. The datasets these models study do not have actual images, they have the URLs pointing to images. If your image is no longer at that URL, the model can’t load your image, and any models trained with out-of-date datasets will not be able to locate your images.

However, this is only a temporary fix if you can’t prevent Common Crawler from recording the image’s new location in its monthly archiving of the internet.

Unusually Polite Thieves

The slightly more advanced tricks we can use to keep crawlers from recording the URLs of your images rely on the etiquette of crawler bots.

Firstly, keeping all your images in one domain has a chance to reduce the number of times models training from filtered datasets will reference your images in training. Crawling or scraping that results in significant negative impact on a domain’s bandwidth is bad. Like, legal action bad. The people behind the learning model generally want to avoid pissing off domain admins. So, there is a narrow chance that simply having all your images hosted on the same domain will prevent a model from trying to access all of them. It’s a bit of a stretch, though.

Something that is much more likely to see results is to plant the equivalent of “KEEP OUT” signs in your domain. Common Crawler, for all its presumption, follows bot etiquette and will obey any instructions left for it in robots.txt. Common Crawler’s bot is named CCBot. Create a robots.txt file and place it in the top-level folder of your domain. Make sure robots.txt includes User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / and CCBot will not archive your pages.

Using meta-tags in the headers of HTML pages on your domain will also help. Adding <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> will tell any crawler robots not to follow any of the links from this page to other pages or files. If CCBot lands on your page, it won’t then discover all the other pages that page leads to.

The more advanced tactic is to disable hotlinking for your domain. When someone accesses an image hosted on your domain from somewhere other than your domain, this is called hotlinking. It’s not just a bandwidth sink, it’s also the exact process by which models are accessing your images for training.

This can be tricky: it involves creating and configuring a hidden file on your domain. The tutorial linked above in the step-by-step gives a simple look at what you can do by editing your .htaccess file, but searching “htaccess hotlink” will provide a bunch of other resources too.

Fucking Pinterest

Let’s cut to the chase: a majority of images in these training sets were scraped from Pinterest. Not DeviantArt! Not ArtStation! Literally 8%, of the billions of images collected, were from Pinterest. Image sharing social sites are the worst.

There’s no easy way to prevent people from resharing your images there, but between your new watermarks and the Pinterest takedown form, you can potentially keep ahead of it. 🫡

Now for the Downside

This won’t work on the models that already exist.

Unfortunately, we can’t untrain DALL-E or Midjourney. We can’t do anything about the data they’ve already studied. It stinks that this happened without common knowledge or forewarning, but all we can do is figure out how to move forward.

The good news is that while the current models are powerful and impressive, they still have some significant flaws. They’ll need more training if they want to live out the bizarre pie-in-the-sky, super fucking unethical dreams some of these weirdos have about “democratizing” art (which seems to mean eliminating trained artists altogether).

If we educate ourselves on how these models are trained and how the training sets are compiled, if we continue to make noise about artists’ rights to their own data, we can make sure this art-generator trend doesn’t somehow mutate into a thing that will genuinely replace living, biological artists.

[kingofseosoftwaresolution]

In the world of online marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) is a crucial aspect of any successful strategy. However, SEO can be complex and time-consuming, especially for small businesses with limited resources. That's where free SEO tools come in handy.

Some popular free SEO tools include Meta Tag Analyzer, Meta Tag Generator, Keyword Research Tool, Robot.txt Generator, Backlink Checker, etc...,

Website : https://kingofseotools.com/

[atharva-thite]

Search Engine Optmization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

HOW SEARCH ENGINE WORKS?

CRAWLING- Crawler/Bots/Spider search the data and scan the data from the server / Internet / web.

INDEXING- Indexing is to store data in search engine data base centre.

RANKING- Ranking is to show the result and give them ranking.

Techniques of SEO

White Hat SEO- It refers to any practice that improve your search ranking without breaking search engine guidelines.

Black Hat SEO- It refers to increase a site ranking by breaking search engine terms and services.

Black Hat SEO Types

Cloaking- It is the method of presenting users content that is different from search engine crawlers.

Content Hiding- This is done by same text colour as the background to improve ranking.

Sneaky URL Redirection- Door way pages are proper site that redirect to different page without their knowledge.

Keyword Stuffing- Practice of filling content with repetitive keyword in an attempt to rank on search engine.

Duplicate Content- It means to copy content from other website.

WHAT IS WEBSITE?

Domain- Domain is a simply name of the company.

Hosting- Hosting is a space or storage on server where we can store website.

Dealers of Domain and Hosting

GoDaddy

Hosting Raja

Hostinger

Blue Host

Name Cheap

WHAT IS SSL?

SSL Stands for Secure Socket Layer It is a technology for keeping an internet connection secure and sensitive data that is being sent between two system preventing criminals from reading and modifying any information transferred including personal details.

WHAT IS URL AND SUB DOMAIN?

URL- Uniform Resource Locater

Sub Domain- www,web,apps,m

KEYWORDS- Any query search in search box is known as keyword.

TYPES OF KEYWORD

Generic Keyword- It is used for brand name or general keyword it helps to balance your generic keywords to capture wide range of customer. Only one word is used.

Short Tail Keyword- These keywords are phase of two or three words.

Long Tail Keyword- Specific Keyword phase consisting more than three words.

Seasonal Keyword- These Keyword generate most of their search traffic during a specific time of the year.

GOOGLE SANDBOX EFFECT

It is a observation period done by the google to check whether your site is having any technical issues, fraud, scam and user interaction towards website.

SERP

Search Engine Result Page appears after some search something in the search box.

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

META TAG OPTIMIZATION

Title Tag- Digital Marketing

Meta tag- content=………….150 to 170 characters

FTP TOOLS

Core FTP

Filezilla

INDEXING AND CRAWLING STATUS

Indexing Status- Status which shows exactly when the site is stored in data base centre.

Crawling Status- Status which gives information about recent crawling of our website. eg. site:abc.com.

KEYWORD PROXMITY

It refers to distance between keywords.

Keyword Mapping

It is the process of assigning or mapping keywords to a specific pages of a website based on keyword.

IMAGE OPTIMIZATION

ALT Tag- It is used for naming images also known as alt attribute

<img src=”digital.png”alt=”name/keyword>

Image compressing-The process of reducing image size to lower the load time.

Eg. Pingdom- To check load time.

       Optimzilla- To compress image.

Robot.txt

It is a file in which instructions are given to the crawler how to crawl or index the web page it is mainly used for pages like privacy policy and terms and conditions.

Robots meta Tag

They are piece of core that provide crawlers instruction for how to crawl or index the content. We put this tag in head section of each page it is also called as no index tag.

<meta name=”robots”content=”nofollow,noindex……………../>

SITE MAPS

It is list of pages of website accessible to crawler or a user.

XML site map- Extensible Markup Language is specially written for search engine bots.

HTML site map- It delivers to user to find a page on your website.

XML sitemap generator

CONTENT OPTIMIZATION

Content should be quality content (grammarly)

Content should be 100% unique (plagiarism checker)

Content should be atleast 600-700 words in web page.

Include all important keyword.

BOLD AND ITALIC

<b>Digital Marketing</b>   <strong>……………</strong>

<i>Digital Marketing</i>      <em>………………</em>

HEAD TAGGING

<h1>………..</h1>          <h5>…………</h5>

<h2>………..</h2>           <h6>………..</h6>

<h3>…………</h3>

<h4>…………</h4>

DOMAIN AUTHORITY(DA)

It is a search engine ranking score developed by moz that predict how website rank on SERP.

PAGE AUTHORITY(PA)

It is a score developed by moz that predict how well page will rank om SERP.

TOOL- PADA checker

ERROR 404

Page not found

URL is missing

URL is corrupt

URL wrong (miss spilt)

ERROR 301 AND 302

301 is for permanent redirection

302 is for temporary redirection

CANONICAL LINKS

Canonical Links are the links with same domain but different URL it is a html element that helps web master to prevent duplicate issues in seo by specifying canonical version of web page.

<link ref=”canonical”href=https://abc.com/>

URL STRUCTURE AND RENAMING

No capital letters                    5. Use important keyword

Don’t use space                      6. Use small letters

No special character             

Don’t include numbers

ANCHOR TEXT

It is a click able text in the hyperlink it is exact match if include keyword that is being linked to the text.

<a href=”https://abc.com”>Digital Marketing</a>

PRE AND POST WEBSITE ANALYSIS

PRE- Domain suggestions and call to action button

POST- To check if everything is working properly

SOME SEO TOOLS

SEO AUDIT AND WEBSITE ANALYSIS

SEOptimer

SEO site checkup

Woorank

COMPITITOR ANALYSIS AND WEBSITE ANALYSIS

K-meta

Spyfu

Semrush

CHECK BACKLINKS

Backlinks watch

Majestic Tool

Backlinks checkup

CHECK WEBSITE LOAD TIME

GT-Matrix

Google page insights

Pingdom

PLUGIN OR EXTENSION

SEO quacke- site audit and web audit

SERP Trends- To check ranking on SERP

SOME GOOGLE TOOLS

Google search console

Google Analytics

Google keyword Planner

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How to Quickly Get Your Website Indexed by Google

 In order to rank on google search, your page must be indexed by google. Let's see how to quickly get your website indexed by Google.In order to rank on google search, your page must be indexed by google. Let's see how to quickly get your website indexed by Google.

Every site owner wants their site to be indexed by Google quickly. The faster the website is indexed, the faster your site will appear in the SERP search results.

However, sometimes site owners still don't know how Google indexes websites and how to get websites indexed quickly. Therefore, you need to refer to this article so that your website can be faster on the search results page and found by users. Let's jump right in!

What is Google Index?

In the webmaster world, we often hear the term index or Google index. A website index is a database that contains a collection of information related to websites on search engines. Then how does Google index a website? Well, the index is generated from the crawling and indexing process carried out during a certain period.  

Later, the search engine will crawl and then your website data such as titles, keywords, tags, images, or other data will be stored in the search engine database. The amount of data stored in the database is called an index. 

Then usually many people ask, how long does an article or website take to be indexed by Google? Because sometimes they want to see their articles appear on the search results page.

In general, Google takes 4 days and at most 6 months to index your article or website. However, there are actually many factors that can determine the speed, such as site popularity, article structure, neatness, and many other factors. Each website is usually treated differently by search engines.

How does Google Index a Website? 

After knowing the concept of index by Google, now it's time to know how Google indexes websites.

1. Utilizing Google Search Console

The first way is to utilize the features of Google Search Console.  Here's how you can do to request an index:

Open the Google Search Console site.

Then select URL Inspection and paste the page link you want to index then press enter. The URL used must have been registered with Google Search Console.

Wait a few moments until the system manages to get the existence of the URL.

After that the page is not directly indexed by Google, so that it is indexed select Request Indexing.

Then Google Search Console will scan the URL and make sure there are no errors such as robot.txt or others. 

Done, you have successfully requested indexing on Google and have entered the queue.

That's how Google indexes your web pages, actually Google will automatically index your site in a few days. Other features that you can utilize include monitoring crawling, index errors, unindexed pages, website security, and many other features. By ensuring that your site has no errors or anything else, the page will be indexed faster.

2. Create an XML sitemap

Next is to create an XML sitemap. The sitemap itself contains a list of pages on your website. So why do you have to create an XML sitemap? That is to make it easier for search engines to find your web pages.

So that when crawlers search for your page, they can find it directly in one file, namely the sitemap, without having to search one by one.

If the website is easy to find, then Google will also index the site faster.

3. Add internal links

Apparently, creating quality articles is not enough, you need to add internal links in the article. Internal links themselves are links that go to other content or pages on the same site.

By adding internal links in the article, Google will judge that your site has a lot of content and each other is related.

4. Ping URL

Ping URL is a way to tell Google that there is an update on your site, after which they will send a robot crawler to explore the updates that occur.

URL pings can be done through several tools such as Pingomatic, Pingdom, and other tools. However, you need to remember not to ping too often because it will be considered spam by Google.

5. Create backlinks

The last way to speed up the Google index is to create backlinks. Backlinks are links that come from other sites but go to your site. The more backlinks that point to your site, Google will judge that the site is quality, so they can index website pages faster.

Conclusion

Well, that's how to get quickly indexed by Google, there are approximately 7 ways that you can apply to your website page. Make sure you don't just do a few ways, but apply everything consistently.

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[appringerblogs]

The Power of SEO for E-Commerce

What SEO Features Does Shopify Provide?

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Popular e-commerce platform Shopify provides a number of built-in SEO tools to assist online retailers in search engine optimizing their websites. The following are some essential SEO tools that Shopify offers:

1. Automatic Generated Sitemaps

Shopify simplifies the process of interacting with search engines by automatically creating XML sitemaps for your online store. These sitemaps act as a road map, guaranteeing effective crawling and indexing, and eventually improving the visibility of your store in search engine results.

2. Editable store URL structures

You may easily tweak and improve the URL architecture of your store with Shopify. Using this tool, you can make meaningful and SEO-friendly URLs for your pages, collections, and goods, which will enhance user experience and search engine exposure.

3. URL optimization tools

Shopify gives customers access to URL optimization tools that make it simple to improve the search engine ranking of their online store. Using these tools, you can make clear, keyword-rich URLs that will help your clients browse your website more engagingly and increase SEO.

4. Support for meta tags and canonical tags

Shopify has strong support for canonical and meta tags, allowing customers to adjust important SEO components. To ensure a simplified and successful approach to search engine optimization, customize meta titles and descriptions for maximum search visibility. Additionally, automatically implemented canonical tags help eliminate duplicate content issues.

5. SSL certification for security

Shopify places a high priority on the security of your online store by integrating SSL certification. This builds confidence and protects sensitive data during transactions by guaranteeing a secure and encrypted connection between your clients and your website.

6. Structured data implementation

Shopify seamlessly integrates structured data by using schema markup to give search engines comprehensive product information. This implementation improves how well search engines interpret your material and may result in rich snippets—more visually appealing and useful search results.

7. Mobile-friendly design

Shopify uses mobile-friendly design to make sure your online store works and looks great across a range of devices. Shopify improves user experience by conforming to search engine preferences and encouraging higher rankings for mobile searches through responsive themes and optimized layouts.

8. Auto-generated robot.txt files for web spiders

Robot.txt files are automatically created by Shopify, giving web spiders precise instructions on what areas of your online store to visit and index. This automated procedure optimizes your site’s exposure in search results by streamlining interactions with search engines.

9. 301 redirects for seamless navigation

Shopify offers 301 redirects to help with smooth website migrations, so users may continue to navigate even if URLs change. By pointing users and search engines to the appropriate pages, this function protects user experience and search engine rankings while preserving the integrity of your online store.

What Makes Shopify Different From Alternative eCommerce Platforms?

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Shopify distinguishes itself from other e-commerce systems for multiple reasons

1. Ease of Use:

Shopify is renowned for having an intuitive user interface that makes it suitable for both novice and expert users. The platform streamlines the online store setup and management procedure.

2. All-in-One Solution:

Shopify offers a comprehensive package that includes domain registration, hosting, and a number of additional tools and features. Users will no longer need to integrate several third-party tools or maintain multiple services.

3. Ready-Made Themes:

Shopify provides a range of well crafted themes that users can effortlessly alter to align with their brand. This makes it possible to put up a business quickly and attractively without requiring a lot of design expertise.

4. App Store:

A wide range of apps and plugins are available in the Shopify App Store, enabling users to increase the functionality of their stores. Users may easily locate and integrate third-party apps, ranging from inventory management to marketing solutions.

5. Security:

Shopify places a high priority on security, managing security upgrades and compliance in addition to providing SSL certification by default. This emphasis on security contributes to the development of consumer and merchant trust.

6. Payment Options:

A large variety of payment gateways are supported by Shopify, giving merchants flexibility and simplifying the payment process. For those who would rather have an integrated option, the platform also offers Shopify Payments, its own payment method.

Common Shopify SEO Mistakes

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Even while Shopify offers strong SEO tools, typical errors might still affect how well your optimization is working. The following typical Shopify SEO blunders should be avoided:

1. Ignoring Unique Product Descriptions:

Duplicate content problems may arise from using default product descriptions or stealing them from producers. To raise your product’s ranking in search results, write a distinctive and captivating description.

2. Neglecting Image Alt Text:

Your SEO efforts may be hampered if you don’t include product photographs with informative alt text. Improved image search rankings are a result of alt text’s ability to help search engines comprehend the content of images.

3. Overlooking Page Titles and Meta Descriptions:

SEO chances may be lost as a result of generic or inadequate page titles and meta descriptions. Create intriguing meta descriptions and distinctive, keyword-rich titles to increase click-through rates.

4. Ignoring URL Structure:

The visibility of poorly structured URLs lacking pertinent keywords may be affected by search engines. Make sure your URLs are keyword-relevant and descriptive.

5. Not Setting Up 301 Redirects:

Neglecting to set up 301 redirects when changing URLs or discontinuing items might result in broken links and decreased SEO value. Preserve link equity by redirecting outdated URLs to the updated, pertinent pages.

6. Ignoring Mobile Optimization:

Neglecting mobile optimization can lead to a bad user experience and lower search ranks, given the rising popularity of mobile devices. Make sure your Shopify store works on mobile devices.

7. Ignoring Page Load Speed:

Pages that load slowly can have a bad effect on search engine rankings and user experience. To increase the speed at which pages load, optimize pictures, make use of browser cache, and take other appropriate measures.

8. Lack of Blogging or Content Strategy:

Your store’s SEO potential may be limited if you don’t consistently add new material. To engage users, target more keywords, and position your company as an authority, start a blog or content strategy.

9. Not Utilizing Heading Tags Properly:

Abuse or disregard of header tags (H1, H2, H3, etc.) can affect how search engines and readers perceive the organization of your content. When organizing and emphasizing text, use heading tags correctly.

Read more :- https://appringer.com/blog/digital-marketing/power-of-seo-for-e-commerce/

[perchingowl]

Maybe to give a little more context from someone who dabbled a little in AI during uni/college (as in What is AI? What can it do? How can you program and train an AI that filters your emails for spam?), so maybe take this with a grain of salt and do your own research. Otherwise, a quick rundown from someone who is very tired and very done with all of this:

Is this possible?

The short answer is yes. It is possible.

Slightly longer answer: Web crawlers can amass a huge amount of text as they crawl through the internet. Ao3 provides that. And right now, chances are good one has scrapped data from ao3 to form a training set for OpenAI. This is based on what the reddit user(s) who made the post put into the AI generator. However, the possibility exists that other fanfic sites have been used (e.g. fanfiction.net though I don’t know why one would use that if ao3 is right there. More to that a bit further down).

But how can ao3 allow that?

Honestly, as far as I understand it, ao3 doesn’t. See, one can have a robot.txt file on their website, which basically tells robots/web crawlers not to include certain elements/sites. Ao3 has one, which as far as I can tell should cover works but allow scraping statistics. But that doesn’t mean a web crawler, which collects texts, will acknowledge that, especially if its owners realize what a goldmine ao3 is for a training set.

Ao3 as a good training set?

Well, yeah, vast amounts of text that already have been lovingly tagged by its creators? Not only with languages but also the general themes of a text. That’s a goldmine because it means you categorize the text within the training set very easily as you can basically just point it to the tags used by the author.

Imagine it this way, if you have a spam e-mail you can relatively easily tell (with maybe some experience), if it is a spam or not. An AI needs to learn that. This means “here, these 50 messages are spam and these 50 are normal, now based on these common characteristics you (the AI) learn by comparing them, find out which of the 1000 other mails you were provided with are spam and which are not”. The problem is that someone needs to categorize those first 100 messages first so the machine can learn from them. And a lot of that work has already done by the authors here.

That is what I imagine makes ao3 especially attractive for mining text but I might be wrong here.

But that means the training set will be polluted with the ranciest porn you will ever find. That’s good! That means they can’t make money from it! Let’s keep doing that!

No, that is not “good”! It’s still fucking bad! Because the AI still learns how language works via the training set it has been provided with. It still produces content!

That “content” cannot be used though!

And you are feeding a machine that spews out racism and ableism! Just to name two that are mentioned within this article. And the implications of that are horrifying - what if someone uses that AI generator to create fake news that are used to stir outrage? I don’t want my writing to have helped with that! That’s not why I write.

So ... what can ao3 do?

Honestly, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t think anything can be done with technology (now), but this is a matter for the OTW lawyers. There is already a lawsuit, which deals with a programmer realizing github has been scraped by OpenAI (the tool/company that is also suspected of using ao3 to as a learning set for its AI as mentioned above). So, basically open-source and free code has been used to train an AI, which then puts out code which other people profit from. Sound familiar, right?

What can I do?

For now, log your ao3 works.

What’s is done though and your works might have ended up in training set. It’s also only raising the barrier for web crawlers but that’s honestly all we can do. We writers don’t have the ease to make an obnoxious watermark such as artists to distort text without sacrificing readability (really recommend artists doing that btw).

How do I do that? I have so many works.

Thankfully, you can edit all works at once. When you are logged in, go to either your works page or your profile and select “edit works”. Now select “All”. Click “edit”. Scroll down to “ Visibility” and select “Only show to registered users”. Scroll down and click “Update all works”. If need to be, confirm. Wait for a little for ao3 to load and then check if your works have the blue lock.

... is the muskrat really involved?

Who the fuck cares? If he is, it is just another shitty thing he has done and who is surprised. If he is not, ao3 being mined as a training set is still a fucking problem. My fics are for my amazing readers and me - not for some bloody AI some capitalists want to make money with! 

I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer's permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.

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How to Generate Sitemap For Blogger ?

It is very easy to generate Robot.txt for WordPress or Blogger websites. Just you have to follow a few steps and in a few seconds, you will be able to generate robot.txt.

For this, you must first go to a free robot.txt generator tool.

After this, you have to enter the URL of your website in the given box.

Below that there will be an option for the platform, you have to choose your platform as well as blogger or WordPress

After this, you have to click on the given generate button.

As soon as you click on generate, you will get robot.txt generated.

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robots.txt: How to resolve a problem caused by robots.txt

robots.txt file that informs Google what pages, URLs, or URLs they crawl. robots.txt format allows Google to crawl pages or not.

What exactly is robots.txt?

The majority of Search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, employ a particular program that connects to the web to gather the data on the site and transfer it from one site to another; this program is referred to as spiders, crawlers bots, crawlers, etc.

In the beginning, internet computing power and memory were both costly; at that time, some website owner was disturbed by the search engine's crawler. The reason is that at that time, websites were not that successful for robots to, again and again, visit every website and page. Due to that, the server was mainly down, the results were not shown to the user, and the website resource was finished.

This is why they came up with the idea of giving search engines that idea called robot.txt. This means we tell which pages are allowed to crawl or not; the robot.txt file is located in the main file.

When robots visit your site, they adhere to your robots.txt instructions; however, if your robots cannot find your robots.txt file, they will crawl the entire website. If it crawls your entire site, users may encounter numerous issues with your website.

User-agent :*

Disallow :/

User-agent: Googlebot - Google

User-agent: Amazonbot - Micro office

The question is, how will it impact SEO?

Today, 98% of traffic is controlled by Google; therefore, let's focus on Google exclusively. Google gives each site to set a crawl budget. This budget determines the amount of time to spend crawling your website.

The crawl budget is contingent on two factors.

1- The server is slow during crawl time, and when a robot visits your site, it makes your site load slower during the visit.

2- How popular is your website is, and how much content on your site? Google crawls first, as the robots want to stay current, which is why it crawls the most popular websites with more content.

To use you use the robots.txt document, your site should be maintained. If you want to disable any file, you could block it by robots.txt.

What format should be used for this robots.txt file?

If you'd like to block the page with information about your employees and prevent the same information from being crawled, you can block the crawling, then seek help from your robots.txt file.

For instance,

your website name - htps://www.your 

Your folder's name is a sample

of the name of your page sample.html

Then you block robots.txt

user-agent: / *

Disallow; / sample.html

How do I fix a problem caused by robots.txt?

If you find that the Google search console appears as blocked robots.txt within the category called Excluded and you're worried about it, there is a remedy. If you are a friend, when you see that the Google search console appears as blocked robots.txt, it indicates problems with your websites or URLs. 

Let's find out how to fix this issue.

Visit your blog

Click the settings

Click on the custom robots.txt

Turn on

and copy and paste the robots.txt and paste the robots.txt

and then save.

How do you get your website's robots.txt file?

Visit this Sitemap Generator

paste your website URL

Click on generate sitemap

copy the code from below into the sitemap.

And copy and paste it into your robots.txt section.

User-agent : *

Searching is blocked

Disallow:/ category/

Tags Disallow: tags

Allow:/

After these settings, go to the custom robots header tags

Allow custom robot header tags for your robots.

Click on the home page tags. switch on all tags, noodp

Click on the archive, then search the tag page. Turn on noindex or noodp

Just click the link to open it and tag the page. Turn on all Noodp

After completing this step, Google crawlers index your website, which takes a few days or weeks.

What is the process behind the Google bot function?

Google bots will browse your website and locate it in the robot.txt file. It will not visit pages that are not allowed, but those that are permitted will be crawled before being indexed. Once it has completed the indexing and crawling, it will rank your site on a search engine's get position.

How do you check your website's robots.txt file?

It's accessible to Search for keywords in the Google search engine.

Type :

site: https://yourwebsite.com/robots.txt

In the

In the above article, I tried in my very best attempt to describe what exactly robots.txt is and how it could affect SEO, what's its format for the robots.txt file, how to resolve issues caused by robots.txt, How to obtain your website's robots.txt document, as well as finally, what exactly is Google bot function. robots.txt is required to provide the directions for the Google bot.

I hope I removed all doubts and doubt through my post. If you want to make any suggestions in the article, you're free to provide suggestions.

Website Link- aglodiyas.blogspot.com

Questions: What is a robots.txt file used for?

answer : Robots.txt is a text file that instructs the search engine's crawler which pages to crawl and which not.

This file is required for SEO. It is used to provide security to a webpage.

For example, Banking Websites, Company Login Webpage.

This text file is also used to hide information from crawlers. These pages are not displayed on search engines when someone searches for a query about your webpage.

questions: Is robots.txt good for SEO?

Answer: Robot.txt files help the web crawler Algorithm determine which folders/files should be crawled on your website. It is a good idea to have a robot.txt in your root directory. This file is essential, in my opinion.

question: Is robots.txt legally binding?

Answer: When I was researching this issue a few decades ago, cases indicated that the existence or absence of a robots.txt wasn't relevant in determining whether a scraper/user had violated any laws: CFAA. Trespass, unjust enrichment, CFAA. Other state laws are similar to CFAA. Terms of service are important in such determinations. Usually, there is terms and conditions of service/terms.txt.

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Harnessing The Power Of Search Engine Optimization

If you have a website for your business, one of the most important techniques for making that website successful is something called search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is the process of making sure search engines choose your website first. Read on for some tips on how to optimize your website.

If you own a local business and want to make yourself more visible to search engines, make sure you list your business on Google Places. This step will bring up your business to the top of a Google search and will show any information you include (address, phone, website), as well as a map. You will greatly increase visits to your website - and visits to your business.

Use an XML sitemap generator to build an XML sitemap for your website. Upload it into the same directory as your home page. Edit the robot.txt file to point to the sitemap page. Search engines love seeing sitemaps. This is quick way to help your site improve its rank without disturbing other elements of the site.

Give each photo you add to your pages a unique and relevant name. If you do not, then you are throwing away a huge opportunity for SEO. Search engines crawl images and if they see further proof of the page's validity it will help with the page rank. Be sure to fill in alt tags also.

To optimize a website for search engines, it can sometimes, be helpful to modify the website content. By frequently incorporating phrases and words that oftentimes, tend to be entered as search terms into the content of a website, the site designers can often help to increase the traffic to that particular site.

Basic HTML includes six levels of "heading" tags. You should make use of all of them for improved performance with search engines. When you include keywords in heading tags, search engines weight those keywords more heavily against potential search terms. Headings need not dictate the appearance of your web-page, and they offer you a handy way to squeeze extra SEO performance out of your keywords.

By studying the SEO tips in this article, you will learn how to optimize your site for the search engines and also why search engines need you to focus on things like keywords and quality links. The more you know about SEO in general, the better your odds of being found are. And that's what it's all about.

Read more here http://www.ubotstudiotutorials.com/

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The rankings that your business website receives from a search engine is not always under your control. The crawlers that search engines like Google send to websites to verify and analyze the data present on the website and rank the same accordingly. Even if the information on your website is accurate and the content is attractive, it does not mean that you will get a high ranking.

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SEO Basics: A Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners

Are you a beginner in marketing and want to know about the basics of Search Engine Optimization? If yes, this guide will take you through all aspects of SEO, including what SEO is, its importance, and various SEO practices required to rank your pages higher on a search engine. 

Today, SEO is the key to online success through which you can rank your websites higher and gain more traffic and customers.

Keep reading to learn about the basics of SEO, strategies, and tips you can implement. Also, you will find several SEO practices and methods to measure success. 

What is SEO: Importance and Facts

SEO is a step-wise procedure to improve the visibility and quality of a website or webpage on a web search engine. It is all about organic or unpaid searches and results, and the organic search results rely on the quality of your webpage.

You must have seen two types of results on a search engine: organic and paid ads. The organic results depend entirely on the quality of the web page, and this is where SEO comes in. For quality, you must focus on multiple factors like optimizing the webpage content, writing SEO articles, and promoting them through the best SEO practices. 

SEO is a gateway to getting more online leads, customers, revenue, and traffic to any business. Almost 81% of users click on organic search results rather than paid results. So, by ranking higher in the organic results, you can expect up to five times more traffic. When SEO practices are rightly followed, the pages can rank higher fast. Also, SEO ensures that your brand has online visibility for potential customers.

SEO Basics: A To-Do List

Getting an efficient domain

Using a website platform

Use a good web host

Creating a positive user experience

Building a logical site structure

Using a logical URL structure

Installing an efficient SEO plugin

How to Do SEO: Basic Practices

1. Keyword research

Keywords are the terms that the viewers search on any search engine. You have to find out the primary keywords for your website that customers will tend to search for. After creating the list, you can use a keyword research tool to choose the best options.

Find the primary keywords for your site/page.

Search for long-tail keywords and variations.

Choose the top 5-10 keywords for your SEO practices and content.

2. SEO content

Content is key to successful SEO. You have to consider various factors while writing SEO-friendly content. If you are facing difficulties, you can use professional SEO blog writing services to rank sooner and higher on a search engine.

Understand the intent of your customers, what they are looking for and how you can provide them the solutions.

Generate content matching your intent.

3. User experience

This is the overall viewing experience of a visitor or a searcher. This experience impacts SEO directly.

Avoid walls of text.

Use lists, bullets, and pointers in your content.

Use a specific Call to Action.

4. On-page SEO

On-page SEO involves optimizing web content per the keywords we want to rank for. Several factors are included in on-page SEO like:

Optimizing the title tags.

Meta descriptions are an important on-page factor.

Optimizing the Heading tags (H1-H6).

Optimizing page URLs.

Optimizing images, using ALT tags, naming images, and optimizing the dimensions and quality of your images to make them load quickly.

Creating hyperlinks.

5. Link building

Building links is a significant factor in SEO. You have to build backlinks, which means a link where one website is giving back a link to your website, and this can help you rank higher on Google.

You can build links from related businesses, associations, and suppliers.

Submit your website to quality directories through directory submission.

6. Technical SEO

With technical SEO, you can be sure that your website is being crawled and indexed. Search engines need to crawl your website to rank it.

You can use Google Search Console to figure out any issues with your website.

Check your Robot.txt files, typically found at https://www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt.

Optimize the speed of your website.

Set up an https domain and check if you can access your site using https:// rather than http://.

How to Measure SEO Success?

Once you have put the above steps into practice, it is time to track your results. You need to follow a few metrics regularly to measure SEO success. Following are the SEO factors that should be routinely tracked:

1. Organic traffic

Organic traffic is the number of users visiting your site from the organic search results. You can measure the organic traffic through Google Analytics. If the organic traffic on your website or webpage is increasing, this is a positive indicator that your backlinks are working and your keywords are not too competitive.

2. Bounce rate and average session duration

Bounce rate and the average session duration come into the picture when checking if the content on your webpage resonates with your audience.

Average Session Rate: The average session duration measures the time between two clicks. These two clicks refer to the first click that brings the viewer to your page, and the second is when the viewer goes to another page.

Bounce Rate: The bounce rate considers the number of users who came to your site and immediately left.

3. Conversion Rate

You can determine your website’s conversion rate through the Traffic Analytics tool. It measures the number of users performing the website's desired action, like filling up forms or leaving contact information.

Summing Up

You now understand the basics of SEO, a powerful digital marketing medium to rank your business higher on Google and generate more traffic. The ultimate goal of SEO is to let you gain relevant traffic and generate leads. You can follow the basic SEO guidelines, optimize your web pages, create SEO-friendly content, create backlinks, and much more with the help of good SEO blog writing services. However, always make sure to track your success!

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Free Robots.txt Generator | SEO NINJA SOFTWARES

What is a robots.txt File?

Sometimes we need to let search engine robots know that certain information should not be retrieved and stored by them. One of the most common methods for defining which information is to be "excluded" is by using the "Robot Exclusion Protocol." Most of the search engines conform to using this protocol. Furthermore, it is possible to send these instructions to specific engines, while allowing alternate engines to crawl the same elements.

Should you have material which you feel should not appear in search engines (such as .cgi files or images), you can instruct spiders to stay clear of such files by deploying a "robots.txt" file, which must be located in your "root directory" and be of the correct syntax. Robots are said to "exclude" files defined in this file.

Using this protocol on your website is very easy and only calls for the creation of a single file which is called "robots.txt". This file is a simple text formatted file and it should be located in the root directory of your website.

So, how do we define what files should not be crawled by search engines? We use the "Disallow" statement!

Create a plain text file in a text editor e.g. Notepad / WordPad and save this file in your "home/root directory" with the filename "robots.txt".

Why the robots.txt file is important?

There are some important factors which you must be aware of:

Remember if you right click on any website you can view its source code. Therefore remember your robots.txt will be visible to public and anyone can see it and see which directories you have instructed the search robot not to visit.

Web robots may choose to ignore your robots.txt Especially malware robots and email address harvesters. They will look for website vulnerabilities and ignore the robots.txt instructions. A typical robots.txt instructing search robots not to visit certain directories on a website will look like:

User-agent: Disallow: /aaa-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /~steve/

This robots text is instructing search engines robots not to visit. You cannot put two disallow functions on the same line, for example, you cannot write: Disallow: /aaa-bin/tmp/. You have to instruct which directories you want to ignore explicitly. You cannot use generic names like Disallow: *.gif.

‘robots.txt’must use lower case for your file name and not ‘ROBOTS.TXT.'

Check  Free Robots.txt Generator

From Website seoninjasoftwares.com

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HERE ARE SOME SEO BASICS TO KEEP IN MIND.

Is search engine optimization for small business website something which you need to fear about?

Well, “fear” is a chunk intense, but you must honestly investigate it.

SEO — or search engine optimization — is the practice of making your business website or blog align with Google’s expectations and requirements. With proper search engine optimization, your small business website will rank higher in Google searches, growing the likelihood that new visitors will discover it.

HERE ARE SOME SEO BASICS TO KEEP IN MIND.

PICK THE RIGHT KEY PHRASES FOR YOUR BUSINESS WEBSITE WHICH IS RELEVANT AND IT CAN DESCRIBE YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICES BATTER.

The first thing you need to do whilst beginning your search engine optimization journey is choosing the key phrases that you need to rank for. These need to be key phrases that your target market is possibly to search for on Google.

Google’s Keyword Planner tool assist you to discover those key terms. There are also some third-party tools, like KWFinder, that you can use.

Make sure Google can see your website through different tools over internet (Use XML Sitemap, submit to google search console and bing webmaster tool etc.,)

DOUBLE-CHECK THAT YOUR WEBSITE ISN’T HIDDEN FROM GOOGLE.

Go to your website’s cpanel or if you using wordpress CMS then goto user panel and click Settings. In the General tab, scroll right down to Privacy and ensure Public is chosen. (you can manage the same section from robot.txt file in your root directory)

Set your web page’s title and tagline

Your website name and tagline are considered prime real property when it comes to SEO. In different phrases, they’re the best spots as a way to insert your principal keywords. To set them, edit your <head> tag or if you using wordpress then visit your WordPress.Com customization panel and click on Settings. There, within the General tab, you may set your name and tagline beneath the Site Profile section.

Changing your name and tagline for SEO

For instance, in case you control a website of Car Service Provider referred to as Car Services, your name can be something like, “Car Service — Affordable Car Services.” That manner, humans Googling “Car Services” will be more likely to locate you.

Use optimized headlines for web pages

Each webpage publish’s headline ought to not most effective bring the topic of the publish, but also consist of the publish’s essential key-word.

For instance, a headline like, “10 Best Car Service Provider in South Africa” is relatively optimized for the key-word “Car Service Provider.” But if you had been to name the identical weblog publish, “Hire a Car Service Provider for Your Car issue in South Africa,” your post wouldn’t rank as well, because it’s lacking the key-word.

Use your key phrases in web pages

Try mentioning your publish’s fundamental key-word within the first a hundred phrases, and make certain to mention the key-word and other related ones for the duration of.

Don’t overdo it, although. Unnaturally cramming keywords into a publish is referred to as “keyword stuffing,” and Google can apprehend it. Write in a manner that sounds natural, with occasional mentions of your keywords wherein they make feel.

Don’t forget to apply your key phrases in subheaders, too.

Optimize your link or your slugs in wordpress or website.

A slug is the part of a submit URL that comes after your area call. For example, within the URL, http://example.com/road-warthy-certification/ the slug is “Road Warthy Certification.”

With Custom website your have to manage it as link but at WordPress.Com it lets you regulate slugs freely while editing your posts or pages. Under the proper sidebar where it says Post Settings, scroll right down to More Options and fill inside the Slug subject.

Interlink your posts and pages

When working on a brand new publish or web page, always look for possibilities to link for your already existing posts and pages. Those hyperlinks must be relevant to what your article is set. Aim to encompass as a minimum one link for every 250 words of text. It’s additionally an awesome practice to hyperlink to out of doors resources whilst it makes feel.

What’s subsequent?

Apart from the above practices, you need to additionally take the time to post new content regularly. When you achieve this, optimize each individual piece of that content. This is what’s going to present you the pleasant lengthy-time period search engine optimization for your business website.

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