Google confirm down. See googlebot activity

Discussion in 'Google' started by MikeDirnt, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. #1
    No wonder im experiencing low traffic for the past few days. See the googlebot activity from my google analytics. :eek:

    i wonder why the sudden breakdown? is it happening to everyone?

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    MikeDirnt, Apr 21, 2008 IP
  2. Solesuppliers

    Solesuppliers Peon

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    Yea, its been happening to my website also. I have seen a big drop in my traffic, and i dont come up for as many google results as i used to. I haven't touched any of my old content. Last time i added content was about 1 week ago.
     
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  3. The Stealthy One

    The Stealthy One Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    The Googlebot has fallen ill. His doctor advised him to stay home for a few days. :)
     
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    Googlebot is still visiting my sites and taking more bandwidth in the last 2 days than the average over the last week.
     
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    #5
    The Googlebot has been busy trying to keep up with all of the new PageRank threads.
     
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    The PR will update soon, I believe this
     
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    live-cms_com Notable Member

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    #7
    I noticed that the Google search results are absolutely rubbish today and yesterday.
     
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    It will be back to normal soon..
     
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  9. Getwell

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    And now,accessing gmail here is pretty slow here.:confused:
    May be something wrong with my ISP !
     
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    SticKer Well-Known Member

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    #10
    I had a similar experience about 2 weeks back but its back to normal now.
     
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    I saw this happen to my blog as well during the exact same time period. More than likely Googlebot was taken down for some reason for a few days. All seems to be back to normal again for me. That last time I saw this happen was years ago when Google made some major changes. During this latest outage, I noticed that my blog changes were updating on a daily basis instead of almost in real time on both Google and Blog Search Google. There are some big changes coming to blogger which might also effect Google as well. Google is talking about bringing most blog post live and searchable within both of their main search engines almost immediately with this new upgrade. While I have no way of knowing if this latest two or three day down time outage by Google has anything to do with that blogger update, it does make sense that the two might be related.
     
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  12. Tehy

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    My googlebot stats are pretty much the same as yours MikeDirnt! There was probably some problems...
     
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    Probably tweak in algo
     
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    #14
    Yes, it's right, i am facing the same problem,
    I also have another problem which really unbelievable,
    I got my website ranked on first page in the morning on one of my targeted keyword,
    and when i checked the same keyword in the evening, it does not show me sometimes in first 10 pages.
    Google having some problem in the datacenters, but one can inside of it give the actual answer.
     
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    yes, my site is showing an error on the sitemap.xml
     
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    #16
    Check it out the code, or there might be a broken link.
    Resolve the problem as soon as possible.
     
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    oh yes, the SERPs are going on crazy these days.

    I saw something else that is strange also.

    I indexed new site with the help of pr2,3,4 and 5 backlinks, but you can see it only with the site:site.com command and you can see the site in the SERPs when querying only "site.com" ....

    and i'm using technique that is working for me every time i try it but not this time...
     
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  18. MikeDirnt

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    #18
    you should not have problem submitting sitemap. i have just submitted yesterday and no problem.

    ok seems like the googlebot has gone for some holiday and already back? im getting back my search engine traffic. :)

    maybe some cost cutting measures. shutting down servers. wonder how much will they save. :D
     
    MikeDirnt, Apr 22, 2008 IP
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    anand1 Banned

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    No its not so its working fine for me it might be due to some error at that moment but its not up for me at least.
     
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    The BH forums are abubble with chatter about their RSS scraping splogs and 10,000 page doorway sites suddenly being deindexed.
     
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