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What could have happened here?
Are there more people who miss Googlebot?
I have no idea why. I hope it wasn't something I said! But if the same has happened with your site, then maybe it is nothing personal. (It is worrying, though.)
I wouldn't worry yet. I have some sites getting spidered hard, but others not touched yet in the new crawl.
If you're in Yahoo! or the Open Directory then at least one page should be fetched more than once per week.
I also have not seen a trace of the googlebot -- not one single hit -- for over a week.
The only reason I am not worried is that I haven't changed anything fundamental about my site for many months.
If jimone has made fundamental changes that may make googlebot's absence very worrisome. (I hope I did not appear to make light of that.)
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Of course, if only jimone and I are seeing googlebot's absence, then I will start to worry. Isn't anyone else seeing this in their logs? I added this before seeing the next post.
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[edited by: misosoph at 8:58 pm (utc) on July 27, 2002]
I just looked for my site in Google, and everything looks normal there (in fact, one of my pages moved up from 8th on the page to 4th). Maybe the bad is yet to come.
I have no idea about my site's PR per se; I've never bothered to learn about it. It's not a commercial site.
On google's last update I've lost 26000 indexed pages, just showing now 50 (yes, 50).
:( :(
I guess you can hope the 25,950 other pages will be back next month. :(
It's quite annoying, it's the work of two years, trying to do things well, to have it directly thrown to the trash in just one day...
I've write to help@google, let's pray..
Regards (and sorry for my English)
How can you tell if Googlebot has visited. My webtrends report shows googlebot in the browser section instead of the spider section.
Also, how can you tell how many pages google has indexed.
Thanks
Google looks to be facing the same fate as Microsoft -- to be kowtowed to, feared and hated. Microsoft makes some good software and Google does some good searches -- but only a fool loves a monopoly or a dictatorship (because what it exalts today it can just as easily crush tomorrow, and there is no recourse).
cYbErDaRk, your English is far better than most people's here (including mine). :)
How can you tell if Googlebot has visited. My webtrends report shows googlebot in the browser section instead of the spider section.Also, how can you tell how many pages google has indexed.
I don't know whether anyone else is going to respond to your questions is this thread. Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with webtrends reports. What I can say is that googlebot is Google's robot/spider, and so if it is showing up in your logs, then your site is being spidered. I've never seen or heard of googlebot being used to do anything else (But I'm not a Google expert).
This is what our host says:
Don't ask questions in the middle of another thread. If you have a question (other than a clarifing question that is on topic to the current thread), then please start a new thread.
If you don't, usually your questions won't get answered. At least that's my observation. I hope that helps a little.
rfgdxm1 (msg #:15), if I knew that, I'd be as rich as the "Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo". -- Of course, "... who Broke the Google Algorithm" sounds geeky; who would write a song about it?
yankee, jady, lazyz -- Your notes are reassuring. But only if your sites are still listed in the Google index. Are they?
If Google was only looking for dead links, then surely it could not have been visiting every site on the Internet every day! And since the visits did not result in the Google cache being updated -- Again, what was the point?
now i can tell you that Googlebot came back on July 30, pm 23h.
so it seems that Googlebot toke a 14 days holiday.
i am glad it is back and hopefully stays coming back.
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last month i noticed another curious thing about Google.
the homepage of another web site of mine, had a PR7.
although the page was still listed in Google,
there was NO pagerank anymore after a google-update.
(may be due to the fact that in the beginning the pagecontent was somewhat similar to a page on another website of mine;
i changed the content afterthat)
then, after the latest update (July 28?) it has PR2 !
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regards to all,
jimone
