Why does google try to hit inexistant pages? ( ie /xwqytlzx.html )

I see googlebot trying totally inexistant pages on the pattern of /trygxcvbdwq.html or something like this...

What is the pourpose of this making up of pages ?
thanks.

 

Maybe trying to understand if you are cloaking or using orher nasty tactics ?

 

What do you understand by cloaking?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking - Cloaking

 

no. not the case at all.

 

There are automated spammer sites that generate content for every url. This may be Google's way of identifying them. Another reason may be verification of site for Google Webmaster tools.

 

I havent submited this site to webmaster tools yet..
I was looking if someone was encountered this before.

 

yes all this is, is google hunting for spam

there are tools that will make webpages on the fly tailored to whatever search string is used to get to the pages

 

Hello
I do not think that this would be an easy way for google to find spam. The chances to randomly hit a generated page name are near zero and also note how much time google will loose to try all possible combinations.
I guess this is related to something else.

 

allancass: the idea is not finding spam pages by randomly guessing the correct page. A spam site will often return a similar page no matter what the request is - for example, test.org/index.html and test.org/randomstring.html will return the same page.

 

google is getting smarter, it's a good thing really. At least it is if you are an honest webmaster

 

Sometimes google acts foolish.

I submitted my sitemap with
www.example.com/page.htm
And google said it cannot find
www.example.com/page.htm:rolleyes which is not in the site map.

After all its a bot and foolish. Hope it does not become a skynet.

 

google is checking the cloaking with that way

 

Thanks for the Wiki link
I thought it would have been looking for just the site verification page and nothing more,Never had heard of cloaking.

 

I think no one from us is honest webmaster, every one trying to do spam intensionally or unintentionally.

There are many factors works after it.

well google is trying to get find out those website which are using cloaking.

 

Yes good point, but what if you have put a custom 404 error page or maybe you redirect all missing page requests to your homepage via modrewrite? That will put you in the wrong category for google?

 

I think it's a smart way to do that

 

Yep, I've been getting weird hits too to web pages that do not even exist on my web site. Reading this thread makes sense.