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whittibo 
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 Posted: 15 September 2003 at 4:42pm |
so what's it mean when he's there for 114 minutes??
could that mean someone is using Googlebots IP? 
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wistex
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Posted: 15 September 2003 at 10:17pm |
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Google will index all your pages, so he may visit more than once.
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whittibo
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Posted: 15 September 2003 at 10:21pm |
well.. here's a perfect example..
| Guest 1 |
September 15 2003 at 8:43pm |
September 15 2003 at 9:18pm |
35 minutes |
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| Guest 2 |
September 15 2003 at 8:44pm |
September 15 2003 at 9:18pm |
34 minutes |
Unknown |
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| Guest 3 |
September 15 2003 at 9:10pm |
September 15 2003 at 9:17pm |
7 minutes |
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| Guest 4 |
September 15 2003 at 8:41pm |
September 15 2003 at 9:17pm |
36 minutes |
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just funny how sometimes he's there for '0 minutes' but yet here he is for 35, 34, 7, 36 all at the same time.. and this is a lite visit.. :)
I am not complaining.. cause I think it helps our traffic.. we seem to do pretty well with the stream of newbies coming in!! 
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wistex
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Posted: 16 September 2003 at 12:12am |
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They may or may not be Google. They may be some other bot. Unless you checked the IP ranges, you would not know.
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pedalcars
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Posted: 16 September 2003 at 6:33am |
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Yes, they could be Google or other search engines (good), or email harvesters (bad).
We get both on a reasonably regular basis, with Google being the most frequent visitor, then Inktomi (?I think it's spelled?) and others. When the active visitors jumps to around 30, it's a good indicator of robot activity. We do a quick IP check in the stats to make sure it's "safe" visitors rather than hackers; If it's the latter, the IP gets banned!
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God_Struth
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Posted: 16 September 2003 at 10:41am |
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Mmmm....
What you seem to be forgetting about google is one thing. If you have guest access denied on your forum googlebot will be refused entry like an ordinary user who doesn't have access, and rightly so because we don't want private areas all over the web.
If the googlebot is on your site for more than 5 mins, once a month, then the chances are it is doing a deep crawl. If the googlebot is on longer than 15-20 mins then chances are it isn't the googlebot unless you have a mountain of a web site.
As for the googlebot visiting your site several times a week?
No. Highly unlikely.
Worth further investigation if a robot comes more than once a month.
As for the active user thing, I have never seen that issue on my forum in 3 years online.
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 16 September 2003 at 4:58pm |
I find that the google bot hits this site almost daily and updates it's casche of the site on Google around once a week depending on the section of the site.
Google bot follows links from other sites so the more links from other sites the more often your site will get visited.
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pedalcars
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Posted: 17 September 2003 at 3:38am |
God_Struth, we get googled way more frequently than monthly, for the reasons -boRg- states. Plus there's assorted other search robots. We always investigate anything that looks even remotely dodgy, which is how we know this and also how we've identified and banned several would-be hackers!
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