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Basic Tutorial

Find out about cloaking by taking our basic tutorial. It's easier than you think.

Free Cloaking Scripts

Download free cloaking script that you can download and use on your site today!

Pseudocode

Want to write your own cloaking script, but not sure where to start? Check out our examples, written in easy to follow pseudocode. They will help you get a jump start.

Spider List

Bring up our current list of the 360 spiders that have visited SpiderHunter.com. This shows IP addresses, User Agents, and much more.

Tools of the Trade

Do a whois search on a domain name. Check out the ARIN to see who owns that IP address. Trace the path between your computer and your visitors. SpiderHunter.com has all the tools that you could need to hunt spiders on the Internet.

Cloaking Script Chart

We compare all the cloaking scripts on an easy to read chart. Comparing each feature for feature. See how they all stack up.

The Ethics of Cloaking

To cloak or not to cloak? We try to explain all of the issues regarding the ethics of cloaking.

SpiderHunter Poll

Would an open source cloaking script be helpful to the web promotion community?


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Trap that Spider

Trap that spider and keep it! Find out ways to locate spiders, and find out how to verify if it truly is a spider.

Spider Hunter's Scope

Find a free AWK script to help you find spiders in your log files. Then you can return the results to Spider Hunter to help us keep track of even more spiders!

Non-Spiders

There are many computers out on the Internet that would like you to think that they are spiders when they are not. Find out how to detect them and their types. Also, see out list of User Agents that have visited Spider Hunter.

Tracking Spiders

Find out which spiders are visiting your site and how you can identify them more easily. Bring up the recent history of spiders visiting this site.

Links

Don't want to write your own script? Follow the links to the best places to buy a script in all price ranges.

 
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