Question - BOTS

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Is it possible for web crawlers like MSNBOT to hit your site a LOT everyday and looks like unique visitors???
#search engine optimization #bots #question
  • 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.
  • But why does MSNBOT crawl a site so much?
  • Another questions could bots be considered as ORGANIC traffic?
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    • 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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  • 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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