Internet marketers often hear of the word “bots” in a good light. After all, every website owner wants Google’s bots to crawl their site all throughout. But plenty of webmasters are not aware that not all bots are good, just ask John Connor. But I digress.
Essentially bots can do either good or bad things depending on the person that created it. So while Google or Yahoo! bots are very much welcome in our site, there are also other bots that we need to be wary of. Case in point is the presence of bots created to harvest important information from different sites through the World Wide Web.
These little virtual critters are programmed to go through all web pages available to them and grab whatever information they are ordered to gather like email addresses. These are usually used by shady internet marketers who are in the business of gathering email address and selling them to other business which in turn send marketing pitches and promises of wealth from Nigerian princes.
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