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Question - BOTS

by DaWarrior
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Is it possible for web crawlers like MSNBOT to hit your site a LOT everyday and looks like unique visitors???
#bots #question
  • Profile picture of the author InternetSuccess001
    Yes. GoogleBot, MSN, etc, etc, all use various ip addresses to 'check' your site. They also have 'hidden' bots sometimes to determine if you are trying to do any kind of SEO cloaking, etc to game the search engines.

    With most log software, you can exclude certain IP addresses so you get a much more 'realistic' idea of what your real traffic is.
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  • Profile picture of the author DaWarrior
    But why does MSNBOT crawl a site so much?
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  • Profile picture of the author DaWarrior
    Another questions could bots be considered as ORGANIC traffic?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      That's funny. Asking why bots are visiting so much.

      As if that were bad. You want it and need to encourage
      it. You get it by being a trusted, mass appeal, changing
      content, etc. In fact, this post will be crawled in two
      shakes of a lambs tail because warrorforum gets the
      crawling love.

      Organic traffic? I am rolling on that one. I guess it's
      the most organic traffic one could get! So to speak.

      It may look like a unique visitor. Check you logs and you
      can see who last visited your site.

      For most of us, you don't really want the bots not crawling,
      although many don't update often enough to actually
      "warrant" one. But you want want the bots. Just not
      spam bots.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author DaWarrior
        Thanks, these bots are coming in crazy fast all from msnbot mostley, botgoogle, and yahoo slurps

        SO this is a GOOD THING? When I start adding fresh content???


        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        That's funny. Asking why bots are visiting so much.

        As if that were bad. You want it and need to encourage
        it. You get it by being a trusted, mass appeal, changing
        content, etc. In fact, this post will be crawled in two
        shakes of a lambs tail because warrorforum gets the
        crawling love.

        Organic traffic? I am rolling on that one. I guess it's
        the most organic traffic one could get! So to speak.

        It may look like a unique visitor. Check you logs and you
        can see who last visited your site.

        For most of us, you don't really want the bots not crawling,
        although many don't update often enough to actually
        "warrant" one. But you want want the bots. Just not
        spam bots.

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          Well, if they don't visit, you don't get indexed or updated.

          Look for the most valuable one, googlebot.

          Bots will visit whenever they please. But yes, you
          want them to visit.

          Don't be afraid of them, if that's part of your concern.

          Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author DaWarrior
    That's good but my concern is the person I purchased a site stated 50 unique organic visitors. And so far they are ONLY from google/msn/yahoo bots
    Should I ask my money back???
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