[eye30]

Who is google[bot]????

[30L6805]

is a web spider (bot) that runs thru every page when a related search is done. I also run a phpbb3 forum and i shut off this and other related bot...

[encountar]

copied and pasted from the below link


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot

A Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or another well-behaved spider, they can do so with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file,[1] or by adding the meta tag <meta name="Googlebot" content="noindex"> to the webpage. [2] Googlebot requests to Web servers are discernible from their user-agent string 'Googlebot'.

Googlebot has two versions, deepbot and freshbot. Deepbot, the deep crawler, tries to follow every link on the web and download as many pages as it can to the Google indexers. It completes this process about once a month. Freshbot crawls the web looking for fresh content. It visits websites that change frequently, according to how frequently they change. Currently Googlebot only follows HREF links and SRC links. [3]

Googlebot discovers pages by harvesting all of the links on every page it finds. It then follows these links to other web pages. New web pages must be linked to from another known page on the web in order to be crawled and indexed.

A problem which webmasters have often noted with the Googlebot is that it takes up an enormous amount of bandwidth. This can cause websites to exceed their bandwidth limit and be taken down temporarily. This is especially troublesome for mirror sites which host many gigabytes of data. Google provides "Webmaster Tools" that allow website owners to throttle the crawl rate. [1]

[eye30]

will this attack my computer???

[Shambles]

will this attack my computer???

Nah mate. You're thinking about robocop. Or googlecop

It's a good thing really. I've noticed the bot spidering this site a few times today. It means the main google index will soon include searchable results from the public's google enquiries. In fact, the more occurrences of "i30ownersclub" that appear in posts, the higher ranked this site may become. I think.

[eye30]

THanks Shambles.

[Shambles]

No probs, valued fellow member of i30ownersclub (which can be found by entering www.i30ownersclub.com into a browser address bar). That's i30ownersclub.com .

[Dazzler]

Hi Guys,

You took the words right out of my mouth, Shambles (as Meatloaf used to say)

I was disappointed that we were not showing on any google searches and was thinking of sending Dave and Toxxic a message to see what we could do to lift our search profile but might not need to now!

Have a mate who's a wizz with websites (makes a living off them) and i don't know whether it's an acceptable practice but he puts a lot of hidden words on his home page somehow that makes his sites go up the search rankings considerably.. Not exactly sure how it works..

Cheers,

Dazz

[Shambles]

Hi Guys,

You took the words right out of my mouth, Shambles (as Meatloaf used to say)

It must have been while you were kissing me

[Dazzler]

Oh yuk.. the thought of it!

[toxxic]

Yeah words like that are ok, but not for us really seeing as out site is pretty specific, we dont want people searching about pasta ending up at our forums, google will take care of this themselves, indexing all our pages - this will hopefully keep us confined too i30 specific searches.

As for pagerank and all that, this will come in time, and with more incoming links... (i.e. links from other websites).

I am thinking about setting up a front news page for you guys, so everytime a new i30 article is spotted on the web we can provide a summary and a link, what do you guys recon?

Hi Guys,

You took the words right out of my mouth, Shambles (as Meatloaf used to say)

I was disappointed that we were not showing on any google searches and was thinking of sending Dave and Toxxic a message to see what we could do to lift our search profile but might not need to now!

Have a mate who's a wizz with websites (makes a living off them) and i don't know whether it's an acceptable practice but he puts a lot of hidden words on his home page somehow that makes his sites go up the search rankings considerably.. Not exactly sure how it works..

Cheers,

Dazz

[Dazzler]

Hi Toxxic (and Dave)

Sounds good to me...