Vimes - 7:39 am on Sep 5, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi,

Over the last 7 days I’ve seen a validated Googlebot requesting 1000’s of url’s that haven’t been on my website for years.

These are all returning 404’s now and have been for a long time some of these URL’s that are being requested are up to 4 years old.

Ok, some could be from external links, but the quantity of these requests leads me to believe that there is something else going on.

My assumptions are:

a)Google’s building new indices.
b)A major change coming to the algorithm in the next few weeks
c)My sites in deep do-do

We've got sitemap files so why ask for these URL's all of a sudden

Any one else report this type of activity.

Vimes.