Google Visiting Website - IP Addresses

[gouri]

I was wondering if someone can tell me how they can check if Google is visiting their site? I have seen several people mention that they can look at the IP addresses and tell if Google has visited.

Can you please tell me how I can do this?

[drall]

You have to go through your raw logs. Trace ip's out then once you have some that belong to G grep your raw logs for them and look at the user agent.

We have hundreds/thousands of internal googleplex visits a week, its fun to see what they are up to.

It is especially fun to see them come into our site from other search engines like live and ask when they are doing "research" hehe.

[gouri]

First, thank you for responding. That's great information.

Can you please tell me how I can go through my raw logs?

[g1smd]

If you have FTP access to your server, look for a folder called logs or stats. The files will be in there. There is usually one file per day, and the data might go back a week or a month.

Download those files to your local machine. There are plenty of programs that can parse and analyse the files, as reading through them for a very busy site can be very tedious.