How do I stop companies from stealing traffic?
 

I was just at my Uncle's house and checking out XP. We noticed on one of my sites and on all sites certain keywords were underlined and being redirected. I know there are a couple different companies doing this right now. This company uses yellow underlines under the phrases.

What I need to know is the code to place on my site to prevent this. I am thinking that each company would need a different code in my heading. Is there a site that gives information on these companies and the codes I need to place on my sites?

Well, you can skip installing software that redirects you! That always works for me!

its spyware mate!

goto your add/remove program and find a program called something with toptext or i text or something simular!

if you cant findt it goto c: program files and find it there

if you still got problems afterwards we need to empty a few strings in your regedit database!

hope it helpz!
Vegaz
[edited due to smileyface instead of the letter p http://bbs.gofuckyourself.net/board/tongue.gif]

[This message has been edited by vegasdude (edited 11-23-2001).]

upz




[This message has been edited by vegasdude (edited 11-23-2001).]

I know what it is. I am not looking to take it off his computer. I can't take it off of the computers of the millions of people that have it. I want to place a code on my sites to stop it from working on my sites. I know there are different ones and I think I need a different code for each one.

Does anyone know these codes or where I can find more information on them?

As far as I know, this is the only code you use:

meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"

I'm looking more into it now...

It looks like the links you are seeing are probably from KaZaa, not XP smartags (yellow underlines, I think, are from KaZaa, squiggly blue are smarttags.)

So the meta that I just posted is useless against that.

I'm finding a fair amount of info in google, typing in the search phrase "metas to keep XP from stealing traffic".

Thanks Bill

This is exactly the info I need.

The last I heard XP was not using smart tags in their browsers... guess not

Sorry, squiggly purple underlines are smarttags, not blue.

Okay, a little more scoop- supposedly smarttags are not enabled in IE6, but they are enabled in XPoffice- I don't know how that might affect your particular case. I don't have first hand knowledge, I'm not in any hurry to try XP.

bill8 is correct I believe.
meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"

On all of your pages. Microsoft was not going to use them "but" something to do with Office
XP or other it was already in that software.

So I think if you put the above code in, and then have your inlaw check your pages.

The < and > are missing from the code.

Jim