Single hen

[Louise]

Must be the spam programmes as they search all topics at the same time and presumably each search shows as one user

[Mrs Frugal]

Yes, they do, Louise. It's not uncommon to find a crawlbot in every section and sometimes we'll have a Googlebot and some other search engine crawlbot here at the same time. They all register as individual guests and push the total up.

 

Just had a look and the Googlebot's here now - say hello everyone .

[Egluntyne]

Hello Googlebot.

[Laura & CTB]

Kate - how do you know it's a googlebot - wot's it look like? Is it exciting?

[The Dogmother]

They look like this

 

 

You can actually use code to exclude 'spiders' from your web pages, but not that many people want to do that because they prefer to be trawled and be top of the search engine rankings.

[Mrs Frugal]

No, it's not exciting at all . As site admin, I can see the IP addresses of everyone using the forum - guests and registered members. If I spot the same IP on several sections at once, it's usually a crawlbot and if I look up the IP address, it says "Googlebot". I imagine him as a spider with a lot of notebooks and pens, frantically making notes on what everyone's saying here so he can report back to Google and post links to us .

 

Edit - cross posted Clare! Funny that I imagine him as a spider and you've just posted a picture of a spider too .

[Laura & CTB]

Thanks for the enlightenment Clare & Kate

 

(I'll probably have nightmares now) *shudders*

[Egluntyne]

Oh my word....we have done it again!!! 94 now!!

[Mrs Frugal]

I hope we don't end up with the record at 142 again or James won't reset it any more .

[Egluntyne]

What is the fascination with this site....we've now got a whopping 61 guests!

 

Yet another record broken.