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Normally, I have a dozen or so Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) bot's on site.
But currently I have hundreds of them, all from unique 66.249.*.* IP's.
Am I alone on this?
i've had this one hitting me really hard over the last week:
66.249.67.
supp's coming in or going out i'm not sure yet whats it hitting on your site.
Vimes.
i'm seeing some of the pages that it hit last week showing good cache dates but some are Supp results still, how ever i do know that the pages that i've looked at were supplemental before.
on the flip i've also seen Supplemental pages come back in to the index with this Bot, still watching and checking seems to be a delay of a few days for the bot to hit them and then update the information seen on .com
Vimes.
[added]
are you seeing any page total fluctuations across Dc's i am.
[edited by: Vimes at 7:07 am (utc) on June 5, 2007]
are you seeing any page total fluctuations across Dc's i am.
<EDIT>Page total flux is a positive, yes I am seeing it</EDIT>
No, just the very minor normal flux.
However major movement has been discussed in two threads over the past few days:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]
and the rank change site is showing hugh movement, late last week and into the weekend, but I am just not seeing it in my SERP's.
I guess my widget is safe, for now.
[edited by: kamikaze_Optimizer at 7:22 am (utc) on June 5, 2007]
Normally, I have a dozen or so Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) bot's on site.But currently I have hundreds of them, all from unique 66.249.*.* IP's.
I've been having the same problem. Only this afternoon / evening it was Google hammering me, NOW it's Yahoo.
Are these the real deal or spam bots masquerading as trusted bots to avoid filters?
It seems that they both came out at the same time. But for me, on two different sites.
Sadly, I need yahoo on the other one, and Google on the other...
I guess thats life.
[edited by: kamikaze_Optimizer at 7:57 am (utc) on June 5, 2007]
Vimes.
If not, what's up with them lately? Why are they hammering sites like this. I actively watch who's on my site whenever I'm on the PC and I've never noticed activity like this before (from these companies, at least).
Are these the real deal or spam bots masquerading as trusted bots to avoid filters?
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3092423.htm [webmasterworld.com]
There's zero possibility that a semi-intelligent spammer reprograms his bot to spoof the Yahoos and Googles?
Oh, I am not suggesting that at all.
I know what is on my sites at all times, these are real.
I am just very interested in what has been happening tonight on both of my sites, buy two different bots.
But good point :)
The code jcoronella posted... the bot has to be on your website in order to test it, right?
Googlebot crawls over 5K pages per day on my site, and that's barely scratching the surface.
You guys need to avoid StarBucks before checking your log files ;)
I guess what my point is with the topic before it went OT, is that I am seeing hundreds of Google bots at once.
I normally have 5000 pages visited during the day also, but by one or two bots only.
hundreds of Google bots at once
If you're getting hit by lots of different IPs in a very short time, like 100 in a minute or so, I might consider writing to Google as it could be a bug.
If you're talking about lots of different IPs over the course of the day, that's normal.
No statement made on why so many different IPs were loading from the site though..
I guess I can sleep better tonight. :)
And guess what?
They eat them.
Lots of attention on that site last few days. Strangely, though, most of the attention seems to be coming from Ask & Ocelli. Google seems to be behaving as normal ...
