Googlebot in logfile

Can anyone tell me what this means?

[bluemi]

Can anyone tell me what this entry from Googlebot in my logfiles means?
216.239.46.172 - - [04/Aug/2002:04:44:05 -0500] "GET /t_blank HTTP/1.0" 404 -

Thanks!

[Rugles]

It means that you will be in the google database, if you are not already.
It is a good thing and you want to encourage frequent visits by googlebot.

[Sinner_G]

To me it looks rather like googlebot was looking for a file named t_blank and returned a 404, which is not that good.

[bluemi]

Yes, that is what I was wondering about. The site is up since quite some time and listed in Google, but I never ever had a file with such a name...

[Sinner_G]

In this case, try looking on Google if another site links to that page, I don't see any other reason googlebot would look for it.

If so just mail them to change their link.

[bluemi]

Thanks, Sinner. Already tried that as well before, without any result. Maybe a new one but I have to idea how someone could get the idea to link to such a page. I don't have anything remotely similar on that site.

[TallTroll]

I bet you a stack of tenners that high you have a broken link on the home page of that site, with a target=_blank attribute

<a href=foo.html target=_blank>

Have a look

<added> Actually, it should be "you had a broken link", which is why GG is requesting it now. Other possible culprit, one of the <a> tags in the nedstats code has the target/href atts swapped in the code of your profile site. Maybe Googlebot chokes on that *shrug* </added>

[bluemi]

Thanks, TallTroll. I would have never figured that one out! Looks like it's the "swapped target/href atts" in the Nedstats code that could have caused it. Funny...