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was sent to me in a spam email by google dance dot com
if so has anyone used it? whats it like? has it got any spyware in it?
maku
Not only that, but if you fully read the email, you'd see that there was a way to sign off the list .. just in case you were too dim to remember you signed onto it in the first place!
There's no spyware in it - It's a CGI program.
:):):)
i didn't mean spam as in a random email, i am signed up to their service and i just meant it was an unexpected email
what i was wondering about was the program itself
It's a pretty simple program that will log hits from the Googlebot ordered by date. I'm not claiming it's the worlds best program or anything, but if your server supports CGI & you can run SSI (Server Side Includes) the it is worth a shot.
It beats running through your logfile looking for hits by Googlebot!
I never open HTML email fully on the first pass, so any reminder notice is more helpful if it's right up at the top of the body of the mail.
just my 2p
It's legit, papamaku. It won't work for me, but I sort of enjoy scrolling through the logfiles with wordpad anyway.
:)
I haven't tried any of the w32 ports.
René.
As for google log analysis, what I do is simple but effective.
I have my apache log file, and I do a
cat access.log ¦ grep Googlebot > googlebot.log
( for those not familiar with unix, it opens the apache access.log and filters out all accesses by googlebot, and saves it to a file googlebot.log )
Then I run webalizer [webalizer.org] on that googlebot.log, which produces pretty graphs of when and where googlebot visited. This of course can be automated so you only have to visit yoursite.com/googlebotstats/ to see your googlebot stats.
Absolutely - I tend to find the genuine ones are easy to spot though, they tend not to use the same kind of generic and often 'threatening' quasi-legal tone. When source is viewed in a small window in OE, a recognisable memory-jogger of a site name near the top of the body source has stopped me dumping a 'fair-enough' communication into a spamcop form more than once.
Just a user's perspective for those who employ opt-in.
grep 'Googlebot' /path/to/access_log ¦ /usr/sbin/sendmail you@domain.com
I also use the following to see the total number of hits from Google:
grep 'Googlebot' /path/to/access_log -c
pretty nifty - do you know if it's possible for me to do something similar on a local windows machine? I can download my apache server logs, but I don't have a unix box to run cat, grep, etc. I would really like to be able to view my apache logs with webalizer using windows XP. Any suggestions?
