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Why would a lyric site want to obfuscate lyrics in the source code? It seems like that'd be counterproductive since their traffic is largely driven by search en
by benholmen 15y ago
Why would a lyric site want to obfuscate lyrics in the source code? It seems like that'd be counterproductive since their traffic is largely driven by search engines.
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoEh, they could render it differently for Googlebot.
- nekitamo 15y agoThen they would get hit with a cloaking penalty when the googlebot figures out its being cloaked.
- woodall 15y agoIdeally you would store the original in an unciphered format and, say, GoogleBot hits your site you just serve it that unciphered one. If it is not a spider you can serve them the jumbled one. As for lyric sites, they don't A) want people stealing content, B) have strict rules when publishing lyrics.