A Public Statement to Those Abusing NicheBOT and One Man's Audacity

On September 17, 2006, NicheBOT faced a server crash that was of unknown origin at the time and went offline for 3-4 hours.

On September 18, 2006, and to our shock and amazment, Keyword Discovery results were no longer appearing.

We checked our systems and all we could see was that NicheBOT’s IP address and connection to Keyword Discovery’s database was being refused.

Yesterday, on September 19, 2006, we received confirmation from Keyword Discovery’s CEO, David Warmuz, that NicheBOT was getting hit by thousands of requests per hour that were overwhelming KD’s servers and causing heavy server load. And, therefore, they shut down any access from NicheBOT’s main page at http://www.nichebot.com

That totally and completely explains the events that have transpired over the past few days.

This is a Public Announcement to those that are battering and using automated scripts to try and pilfer keywords for FREE.

Please go away!!!

To choose a place where people are just starting off with their enlightenment in keyword research is quite dispicable and those people that are abusing NicheBOT’s open and free to the public should be ashamed at their efforts.

Karma is natural thing that tends to bite people back that abuse any system. But then again, karma may not exist in the perspective of these pervaders that intend to make it harder for the thousands of NicheBOT users that are trying to just get ahead in their niche market. When bad things happen to the bad-doers, they probably don’t even think twice that it could have been that time they abused a keyword system. They just continue onward in their arrogance and self-absorption to abuse systems and acquire things for free.

I can understand people that are addicted to Adsense and making money from their online ventures. Why not instead go pay for an API when they will eventually burn out a system and then have to go onto another system of pilfering? It’s an endless and ruthless cycle.

Perhaps funds are low for these people, these abusers, these lowly individuals that want to make it difficult for NicheBOT’s users that conduct real keyword research. Yet, they have the time to create scripts to take advantage of a place that has been providing results for well over 2 years at no cost to the Internet public.

Now, because of this, NicheBOT will have to put into place certain measures to battle against these abusers that wish to make it more difficult for the innocent webmaster that is conducting true keyword research, and not trying to soak the resources of NicheBOT, that the server crash.

NicheBOT nearly lost the privilege to display Keyword Discovery results as result of this.

And this was the exact reason why I recently called an emergency signup session for NicheBOT 2 (which is not even public yet) for current NicheBOT subscribers, because of its anti-abuse systems already in place.

The emergency sign-up session is now over and no further sign-ups will be accepted until the public release of NicheBOT 2, which won’t be for a few months.

Which now leads me to the next topic, which is…

ONE MAN’S AUDACITY

In the wake of these most recent developments, and calling of my “Emergency Sign-Up Session” out of the care for NicheBOT users who were unable to acquire keyword results, I received quite a disturbing email from a fellow NicheBOT subscriber and user. This was in response to my email sent out to users with the subject line “It was a REAL emergency.”

And he goes on to say…

“Mr. Morris, I consider this nothing more than a ploy to pad your pockets.”

I kindly responded and told him that he could contact the CEO of Keyword Discovery and confirm these events for himself. I have proof from the email conversations with the CEO that NicheBOT temporarily lost its privileges for accessing their database as a result of the abusers overloading NicheBOT with too many requests.

There was nothing at all to pad mine or NicheBOT’s pockets with. For one, I am merely an officer of Full Throttle Enterprises, Inc., so he’s trying to say that NicheBOT was trying to pad its pockets. Even that is utterly false as you will soon read.

Amazingly enough, I am yet to hear back from this gentleman to challenge any of what has occurred in that past few days. And personally, I don’t think we will hear back from him.

He then goes on to say…

“ If the original NicheBot does not get back up and running at no charge as usual or if you do not make NicheBot 2 available at no charge, I will never buy anthing again associated with the Morris name.”

Woah — wait a minute pahdner! First of all, we are doing everything in our efforts to allow NicheBOT to be provided for free on a continuous basis. Provided that it is not abused. And obviously, some anti-abuse measures will be put into place immediately to prevent any such thing happening again.

Of course, this may affect people having to enter in numbers/letters in a box (captcha) since these poachers will probably not cease until anti-abuse measures are in place.

Next, NicheBOT personally fronted over $3,000 in its budget for current NicheBOT users to be allowed to gain access to premium credits that allow users to conduct EXTENSIVE keyword research. This was provided free and at no charge.

Furthermore, all the free tools on NicheBOT 1 are provided in NicheBOT 2, so once any premium credits are used up, users can freely use the complementary no cost tools at no charge.

So what exactly is this gentleman talking about? I truly wonder if he reads the emails we are sending.

Is he potentially out of line in his comments and his apparent rude nature? I think so.

I think before anyone sends me personal email of this nature, they should think twice as to what they are really saying, especially when they are attacking my own credibilty and that of NicheBOT.

Nonetheless, in the spirit of all fairness, I’m sure this gentleman will come to his senses when the smelling salts finally kick in.

And on a more inspirational note, NicheBOT will be releasing a number of goodies for its subscribers this week. Such as, a neat little translation tool to turn their keywords into foreign keywords, or any text for that matter.

And, the intensely awaited report entitled The Ultimate Search Engine Traffic Funnel. Both of which are given away free. (Go figure!)

The Ultimate Search Engine Traffic Funnel will contain a 30-day plan and empower the webmaster and online business owner to compete in any niche market without the fear of competition. This all-meat report will finally put to rest any need to rely on the KEI of any keyword and the constant and endless formulas that webmasters tumble around in their minds and Excel spreadsheets about which keyword to go after.

Much of the energies most people put into keyword analysis are futile and causes what many call “analysis paralysis” which, thus, translates into take no action. And we all know what happens then — not much really gets done. Either way…

That’s what is on the cooker, so stay tuned as we try to combat and ward off automated script junkies that pilfer keywords from an open and publicly free keyword research platform, and we continue to enlighten its users (and the Internet at large) on how to totally dominate their own niche market, one keyword at a time.

That’s our statement and I’m sticking to it, under oath and under the penalty of perjury.

Best,

Jim Morris, President/CEO
Full Throttle Enterprises, Inc.

NicheBOT – “Finds exactly what people search for.”