What happened? robots.txt changed it?

[melaniejk]

Ok.
I just checked my Cpanel and found something wierd.
I've never seen this before and I'm a bit worried because I've just recently added the robots.txt file to my root directory. Could that have caused what I am seeing? And, I'm not even sure what it is that I'm seeing! LOL

Why is there a plus sign and another number after the number in the Hits column?

MSNBot 8009+8 179.91 MB 18 Oct 2005 - 05:14
Googlebot 5207+2 175.09 MB 18 Oct 2005 - 05:06
Inktomi Slurp 584+6 3.62 MB 18 Oct 2005 - 05:36


Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

[ServerUnion]

this means that they downloaded the file. You will also notice that your 404 erros will decrease as they find the robots.txt file.

[melaniejk]

Thank you, ServerUnion.

But, why is there a plus sign?
Does that mean something in particular?

[ServerUnion]

* Robots shown here gave hits or traffic "not viewed" by visitors, so they are not included in other charts. Numbers after + are successful hits on "robots.txt" files

Per cPanel, right under the stats box. the "+" is just what they choose to use to delimit the text.

[melaniejk]

Geesh. How did I not see that.
I've looked at that page for years and never read it.
LOL
Thanks.

[ServerUnion]

no worries, I dont know how many months I wondered that same questions. At least you asked ;)