Yahoo just indexed /crawled one of my sites law9.com... 170 spiders at a time .. This is amazing.. http://img36.picoodle.com/img/img36/4/4/6/f_law9m_fc0c944.png
how do you detect that spiders are crawling your site and which spiders? i need help so i can get over this learning curve.
Nah, that's nothing. Many big forums have hundreds of spiders from various search engines crawling their pages everyday.
Check your server log for user agents, or if you're on a cPanel server, click on "Latest Visitors," or "Awstats."
With so many spiders going around the corners of your site, what happened to the bandwidth? Are you on a dedicated hosting plan or shared?
Maybe with all these bots crawling pages Yahoo will finally start listing deeper pages without a lot of seo work. Maybe I'm just dreaming and wasting bandwidth for nothing...
It ate atleast 1.8 Gig of bandwidth yesterday and I see a few pages indexed at yahoo if I search http://law9.com. However there has been no significant rise in traffic or anything due to this. There must be mods that actually tell you that there are spiders crawling...
ive noticed within the last month that there are always at least 20 yahoo spiders on my forum. last week it jumped up to 320 at one time.
This is a cool image. No wonder some new forums with hardly >100 members sometime have "Most users online" above 500+. The spiders help to reach that figure I guess.