Robots/Slurp, etc - what does this mean

I am a newbie - not sure what this means

[ramnyc]

I look at my website stats everyday, and everyday I notice that:
Inktomi Slurp goes to my site
MSNBot goes every day
Googlebot goes everyday
LinkChecker goes almost everyday
Jeeves goes almost everyday.

Then there are numbers like:
Inktomi: 2262+215
MSNBot: 415+41
Googlebot: 358+397

What does it mean? Is this good? bad? what's the plus number?

What "robots" and all do I want at my site - like which should I be looking out for?

My most searched for keyword/term comes up super high on MSN & Yahoo but is nowhere to be found on google - is that related to all this?

Any info would be really appreciated.

[Clint]

That's just the SE (search engine) spiders crawling your site. It's normal, and you want it for if they did not, you would not get indexed in the SE's. I don't know about those numbers and the + sign.

"Slurp" is Yahoo, the rest are self-explanatory.

See msg 2 here were I explain about the robots.txt file. (It turned out to be N/A for the thread, but the info is still valid).
[webmasterworld.com...]

You should have a robots.txt file in your root directory of your websites, that's where all that data goes. I don't know if not having one can affect you in Google. It could be that, or it could be due to the massive screw-ups that went on and are still going on for some with G. [webmasterworld.com...] . Or, your site could be 'sandboxed'.

[ramnyc]

What does sandboxed mean? Is there a way to find out how Google is viewing your site, etc?

[Clint]

In short, it's an "area in cyberspace" where G places new websites. You need to browse this thread. It's a TON of posts, I can't type all of it in one post, and I'm really busy now, but all the details are there.
[webmasterworld.com...]

Look through these topics for "Sandbox" and "sandboxed", just do a "find" on each of the pages for 'sand' and you'll probably find some. [webmasterworld.com...]

You can also find details on it by searching any SE for 'google sandbox OR sandboxed' (no quotes).