I was looking thru my logs and I saw where someone typed in Site: www.domainnamehere.com My records show that it IP was from google.com from Mountain View CA. What the heck?
it is possible that someone at google happen to visit your site, but normally they will not go to ur website to check it. But i have heard of people getting the same location as u had. Hope this helps Brandon
Google has real human "Crawlers" too, the bot is sent out to all the sites. However they got a team of some sort, that goes and checks every now and then too!
Google has a MASSIVE team of employees that are assigned sites, and check their relativity to keyword terms, and rate them high or low.
It is USUALLY completely random. No big deal I wouldn't worry about. When I was involved with e commerce sites they would routinely drop by if you implemented there Google checkout. Just something to keep in mind.
Don't get shocked because Google has a huge teammates but normally they don't have time to visit your site manually..
Google has everything on algorithm how ever google bots are constantly hovering on the website but that does not mean that it is manually visiting your website. This can be possible in very rare case when you are under high spam.
I have seen threads here in DP where people are warned about some content on some pages manually for their site and so that does mean its a manual intervention is always there but to a very less extent and may be you need to be at certain pay level for this to happen.
well i'm sure google employees use their own search engine. maybe somebody came across your site on their break
google does have a team which monitors websites..however, I don't know what criteria they have while visiting a website..but Matt's explanations is also a possibility
I think this is one of those things Google keeps under lock and key.... we'll never really know the exacts.
I think that some so-called SEO-programs (special SEO software) used by other people (your competitors for example, while studying your site) can lead to the results you were talking about.
It is possible that some engineer from Google visited your website from some Google search. Do the following, and let me know if you found one of this happen 1. Check the referral link for that Google IP visit. If it was from search engine or some other inbound link, chill 2. Check your adsense account to see if you have made some unusually good number of clicks. Sometimes when there is some quick clicking on Google ads on a particular website, Google staff might visit your site (and also check the IPs of the ad clicker ) to see the possible source of the unusual number of clicks If none of this, its either that it is a google bot (not sure about this) or general random visit. You may chill -Knewthis
I think this would make sense from a quality control standpoint. I have been working on my site for a while as a hobby. In November I made some improvements like moving to Wordpress and paying more attention to SEO tactics. Then I got picked up by a leading blog (PR7; syndicated through Yahoo!, etc.) who is republishing my articles. On of my articles got picked up and went viral in my niche creating a ton of backlinks in 'the neighborhood' in a short period of time. As I was reviewing my referral logs I noticed multiple unique visits (3-4) from multiple Google Inc ISPs over lots of pages for about 30 minutes each. I imagine they are seeing if my site is 'for real' since it has picked up a lot of interest from other 'quality' websites which are the hub of my niche neighborhood. Bottom line is my site is composed of great content which answers searcher's questions and I think Google is verifying that and it is now playing a role in my SERPs. I am glad they do this quality control because then I can have more confidence in their search results.