What are bots ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by 28081981, May 11, 2008.

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    I was checking awstats of my site n i found terms like goolge bots n yahoo slurp.

    I would like to know what is the significance of these bots. If they are visiting our website, what does that indicate? Are they helpful in anyways ? :confused:

    I am kinda noob :p
     
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  2. webcont247365

    webcont247365 Peon

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    Crawlers of Google -- Google Bots
    Crawlers of Yahoo -- Yahoo slurp
    Crawlers of MSN -- MSN Bots
     
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    Answer has already been given above.
     
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  4. 28081981

    28081981 Well-Known Member

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    n what does it indicate ? if they r visiting our site, dos that mean something postive - like our site is becoming popular? or something negative :confused:
     
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    n3o Well-Known Member

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    they just crawl your site for indexing purpose ... basically it's a good thing for seo .. but if you got something secretve and don't wanna show the world ... then you can block them
     
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    28081981 Well-Known Member

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    hm.. i also tried to search my site on gogle usingsome keywords, n found out that the later pages from 10 onwared showed my site linked or presented as a prono site.. which its not.. so i was just wondering if it has got something to do with bots ?
     
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    n3o Well-Known Member

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    i didnt really get what you mean ? the bots reads only what is in your pages ...
     
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    28081981 Well-Known Member

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    n3o Well-Known Member

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    those are just backlinks you got from some forum site ... someone is spamming !!
     
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    28081981 Well-Known Member

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    can u pls eloborate on this ?

    why would someone like to spam my sites url as a porn site, which its not ? what would he gain from it ?
     
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    It indicates that your website is indexed on specific search engine and search engine loves you :). of course, its good from point of view of SEO.
     
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    I would have drinks and sandwiches ready for them if they would just tell me what they like...:)
     
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    Crawlers of Google -- Google Bots
    Crawlers of Yahoo -- Yahoo slurp
    Crawlers of MSN -- MSN Bots
     
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    Bots are also called spiders.. These are list of how Google spiders work:
    * Crawling: Does Google know about your site? Can we find it?
    * Indexing: Can Google index your site?
    * Serving: Does the site have good and useful content that is relevant to the user's search?
     
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    maybe because your site is popular and those spammers wanted their site to become popular also..
    those are some of the things that spammers usually do.. sometimes they copy your content and sometimes they put your link on their site..
    but, you don't have to worry.. because, as long as you are not connected to those spam site your site will not be penalize..
    those spammers are called bad neighborhoods....
     
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    aimhigh Banned

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    See this page:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot
     
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    yea, absolutely right Bots are some automated programs which visits your site and informs the current status of your site to the desired search engine..
     
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    Shelly Brow Banned

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    just like...simple

    All SE(search engine) use a program called robot/spider/ slurp (depend on SE) To ..crawl the page automatically follow the link and indexing pages to add in their data base ...... :p
     
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