Specific IP Address for Googlebot

not 216.* and 64.*

[guddu]

Hi

Reading through prior posts in the fourum by Brett & Others, I came to know that we ccan track Deepbot & Freshbot crawl through the ip addresses 216.* and 64.* in the log reports.

I did the same, but got around 137 clicks through 216.* and even more by 64.* to my website in the log reports for last seven days.

Though, the website is being updated in Google for freshcrawl hits, regularly in April, the last update date being shown as 5th, April, 2003 in Google (till now).

However, no fresh pages added and no changes appearing in the website pages shown. (Just the homepage being shown as updated. )

I have a feel, that there is something wrong with the log analysis through 216.* and 64.* tracking.

Can anyone please help me get accurate report for Googlebot crawl by providing a specific URL / IP address for Deepbot and Freshbot.

Also, I read about ****, can you specify, whether it is safe to use i.e., not penalized by Google. (Is it Google's own website?)

[Jesse_Smith]

Just because the freshbot hits you, doesn't guarentee that they will get listed. And deepcrawl hits won't be seen until the dance, which is guarenteed to occure before April 30th. If any of your links show a date, then that means the freshbot hit is currently listed.

freshBot: 64.68.82.* bah, listed for only a few days, short dinner date then it dumps you.
deepcrawler: 216.239.46.* Good bot, it likes you, listed until death do you depart. So don't make him mad or it will divorce your site. You can divorce the Googlebot by using your robot.txt file. It's much cheaper and faster than going to the courts.

[guddu]

Thanks Jesse,

Can you please provide some information on **** also.

Regards

Guddu

[guddu]

I meant google-dance information site (.com) that provides alerts on google-dance and search facility on Google

[Jesse_Smith]

Were not supposed to post actual site URLs. They will send an E-mail out when the dance starts. What I do is have a framed page that lists all 11 servers pointing to
link:www.yahoo.com and when any of them show a different number, then you know it's started. Right now they all show
Results 1 - 1 of about 692,000. When that number changes on any of the resaults, then the dance has started.

[guddu]

Thanks but the question remains the same whether using this site would penalise the searched sites (is it a facility from google itself).

and

Sorry for posting the URL but how could I explain which site I wanted to ask for?

[Jesse_Smith]

There's not a single web site on the internet that if you use it, Google will penalise you for. That site isn't a Google site. All it does is let's you search all the databases at the same time to see if the dance has started. Google has no idea who you are, and doesn't know if a site is yours when you make a search.

Now if you use programs to submit your site, then some search engines might penalise you, though I don't know if Google would for using programs.

:::Sorry for posting the URL but how could I explain which site I wanted to ask for?

This is why URLs arn't allowed. That site is a Tool Site.

****

No Tools sites or urls please The explosion of Google related free and commercial site tools has opened a flood gate of url dropping to "tools" sites. Therefore, we request you don't post links to "Google tools" (there are dozens if not hundreds of them now as a result of the Google API).

****

[guddu]

Thanks Jesse

This helped a lot.

I would like to ask one more question:

Is submission of .com, .ca, .jp, .au with same site name and same content ( just like a mirror site with different domain) allowed with Google.

Regards

Guddu

[Jesse_Smith]

That's usually looked apon as spam. Google likes unique content. Spam can get listed, but if they find out, you get a PR of zero, and get banned from being listed, until you make the correct changes and E-Mail them request a check and re-listing.

[guddu]

Thanks Jesse,

This made it all clear. Now, I would always remember to make changes in layout & content for all such sites before posting them in Google.

Thanks & Regards

:)