web hits logger

need assistance with setup

[purple_cat]

Hi all

Taking my first steps in what I hope to be a rewarding career! I've uploaded the site to a new host and submitted to Google and DMOZ so far. So now I need to see if the crawlers have found me, so presumably the web hits logger facility of my host is where I need to go.

The instructions are thus:
"The Web site Hits Logger uses Server Side Includes (SSI) to make the logging work, SSI is a special tagging language. To make it work every document that has your Web site Hits Logger on it must end with .shtml."

Does this mean I need to change all the pages on my site from blabla.htm to blabla.shtml?

Don't want to mess things up!

Thanks.

[pmkpmk]

Do you have access to the server logfiles? If yes, just check them for entries from "googlebot" - no changes to your pages necessary.

If you don't have access to your server's logfiles, try everything you can to GET access! Having access to the logs and analyzing them on a regular basis is essential to successful grow your site and get it recognized.

Normally, SSI-pages need the extension ".shtml". However, if you want to stay with ".html" (and you hopefully run Apache) you need to use the "X-Bit hack". See the X-Bit Hack documentation [httpd.apache.org].

[purple_cat]

Thanks for the input!

I've now got hold of the Raw Access Logs. Will 'googlebot' appear in the IP address section or will I have to work out who the robots are from their IP addresses and if so, how do I find that info?

Thanks again