Suddenly swarmed by the Slurp Spider.

[pictureboarduk]

My site has been running for 3 weeks now and I've had an average of around 3 slurp spiders on there at any one time. All of a sudden today I got hit by 70 of them all at once.

What could be the reason for this? The only thing I can think of is ( and I doubt it is) is that I uploaded to sitemap to Google last night, but the wasn't formatted correctly so failed anyway.

Why the sudden swarm by the slurp?

Thanks

[SticKer]

i used to get like 4-5 at a time, but in the last few days it jumped like 8-10 and today it was an all time high of about 18 yahoo bots at a time. i havent checked the total of the bots/day but its surely going to be a larger number today

[pictureboarduk]

Serious, mine went from like 5 to 80! Gotta be a reason for this.

[stickysnail]

Maybe you put something fresh and useful on your site. Or maybe you have been putting links to your site from other locations that are just catching on.

[sahmothers.com]

This happened to me yesterday also or possibly on Saturday. It went up from around 5 a day to 81 on at the same time !!

Weird !

[djixas]

Yes, same here. Noticed ~2 weeks ago.

I got like 1000 hits from Google and over 2000 from Yahoo...

[lpstong]

I noticed both Yahoo and Google bots craweled one of my sites as well. But I figure that happens when you just finished building the site and submitting it to SE et cetera. Of course their gonna be on your sites like white on rice.

[Sockmoney]

For some reason Yahoo's bot has been on our site 3 times more than G lately... yet we get much more traffic from G than from Y.

Not sure what Slurp is up to.

[sweetfunny]

Yeah Slurp is a hungry bugger, 1GB and nearly 100,000 hits of plain text.

[Blogspotter]

Originally Posted by sweetfunny

Yeah Slurp is a hungry bugger, 1GB and nearly 100,000 hits of plain text.

It sure is hungry..

[SUB]

I have also had a sudden rush of 50 yahoo bots on my site the same time from different ip's, if i remember correctly it happen either the 29th or the 30th of june.

Thats when i updated my blog for the whole "iphone release" and the "iphone line". I figured that may be that was the case.

May be i could be wrong?

[MrX]

They've been having their way with my site as well. I can't wash the dirty feeling away...

[iMarketingGuru]

I feel violated as well..I have a loot of content but I saw that dramatic change as well quickly.

[kirby009]

sound like those spider i just passing though. a new sight like that. hmm funny.

[cubechris]

Yeah I experienced this as well not to long back, over 100 bots on my forum. Crazy!

[ThreeGuineaWatch]

Originally Posted by sweetfunny

Yeah Slurp is a hungry bugger, 1GB and nearly 100,000 hits of plain text.

Is that from one week, month, or all time?

[sweetfunny]

That was for the 4 days of July, its well over 2GB now. Funny thing is Yahoo brings almost zero traffic, if i didnt have a stack of bandwidth id honestly just block Yahoo completely.