Why is Bidville Blocking All Search Engine Spiders From Its Entire Site?

[mandy]

Bidville is blocking all search engine spiders from indexing the pages on its site:

http://www.bidville.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=mandy link=topic=2634.msg9394#msg9394 date=1139907067]
Bidville is blocking all search engine spiders from indexing the pages on its site:

http://www.bidville.com/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[/quote]

That would partly explain why after 8 days our 226 auctions have received a total of 26 views.   :

note: the items we have there are what's left of the items we listed during the Summer of 2004.  I will admit they have a very easy autorelist function...if they didn't the number of items on the site would be a fraction of what it is now and we'd have 0 items listed there. 

[dimucci]

That would partly explain why after 8 days our 226 auctions have received a total of 26 views.

0.12 views per item is a giant improvement over the last time I listed. Bidville here I come! 

[bargainbloodhound]

I looked and Bidville has 150,000 pages indexed on Yahoo, 200,000 on Google, and 990,000 items on Froogle.

Froogle has low traffic.  Google search and Yahoo search have high traffic.  Items on Bidville have... :

Bidville stock currently trading at a new low of $0.055 per share.