Note: This software is no longer supported by us but is fully functional. We make no guarantees that it will have the intended results that are stated below when it was originally released and supported. We continue to make the software available for other Perl developers to use as a model for software development of their own.

The Agent Delivery Solution is the answer to what is needed to get your website ranked high in the search engines and to outrank your competitors. It is the web master's companion for pushing a website to the top of the search engines using doorway pages and stealth technology to feed the search engine Spiders, Robots, Ants and Crawlers with what you want them to see while allowing the web browsers to see your full content!

The Agent Delivery Solution's job is to cloak, bridge and hide web pages. Each search engine has it's individual characteristics. Some disallow repeated keywords in totality and some within a certain limit. Some search engines will not list sites containing less than a certain number of words while some rank keywords higher in the body text better. Worse still, some do not index framed pages. Some rank short pages higher and vice-visa. You cannot possibly design your website to cater to every search engine without compromising the overall appearance and text of your website for real human visitors.

With the use of The Agent Delivery Solution, you can feed individual search engines such as AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Euroseek, Lycos, NorthernLight and WebCrawler with specially optimized pages while providing a standard page for normal web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Lastly, it hides your highly ranked HTML code from your competitors!

• Feeds the individual search engines with your specially optimized pages.
• Feeds the web browsers with your browser specific pages.
• Hides your highly ranked HTML code from your competitors.
• Unlimited number of web pages supported.
• Easy to configure and install.

Remote Agents Supported:

The Agent Delivery Solution database includes thousands of entries of World Wide search engine IPs, User Agents and Domain Names. See our Currently Covered Search Engine Spiders and Bots page for a current list of all search engines that we have covered.

Limitations/Requirements:

• Runs on Unix servers only.
• User must have access to their own cgi-bin library.
• User must be able to run Server Side Includes (SSI) #EXEC CGI directives.

Example Pages:

To see the Agent Delivery Solution in action, use our User Agent Emulator by Clicking Here. When the User Agent Emulator page comes up, enter

in the URL field and select either "Browser" or one of the search engines from the drop down menu. You'll see different results depending upon your choices.

The Agent Delivery Solution Files:

• ads_readme: Instructions for the Agent Delivery Solution.
• ads_code.zip: The executables put into a self-extracting executable.

Program History:

• Release 2.3 (08/28/00) : New spider list management system deployed.
• Release 2.2 (05/05/00) : New extensive list of spiders supported.
• Release 2.1 (11/11/99) : Added invalid registration key message.
• Release 2.0 (11/09/99) : Added the use of hosts and IP addresses & corrected delivery error.
• Release 1.2 (09/01/99) : Improved speed performance.
• Release 1.1 (07/01/99) : Added 10 additional search engine agents.
• Release 1.0 (04/01/99) : Initial Release.