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phrail
Joined: Jan 09, 2008
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Posted: 01/30/2008 12:48 pm
I have been monitoring each Googlebot crawl and it seems to me that I have found a SMALL pattern. Before their surge of visits the past couple of weeks, the last time they visited was Aug. 19, 25, 30 and Sep. 6 and 11 of 2007. Slowly I saw this pattern form again the past couple weeks when they started crawling again. They visited on Jan. 19, 25 and 30 just as I had predicted. Now I am awaiting for Feb. 6 and 11 to see if my theory is correct.(I only predicted on the 30th because I only saw the "pattern" form when I saw the dates of 19th and 25th.)
Now I am wondering if this is just coincidence or could possibly be some sort of pattern to the visits.
Have any of you experimented with the monitoring of googlebots? Did you see any sort of patterns to their visits?
I am really interested to hear any of your opinions/experiences.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 01/30/2008 01:21 pm
There are patterns. They generally come back at reasonably regular intervals, often within minutes of the same time as last time. Some sites get an hourly or daily visit, others a few times per week, or a few times per month.
I just reviewed the log files for a site and noticed something interesting too. The Google Webmastertools Verification file is called something like: /GOOGLE7a48ae05ad895a39.html which it fetches a few times per month.
While looking at the site error logs I see that Google has also requested /noexist_7a48ae05ad895a39.html once or twice per month too. That looks like a way for them to test out what the 404 error page looks like (and confirm the 404 response) and detect certain types of site configuration error.
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