crud..how did my forum get so popular? 537 online

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Dekker, Sep 19, 2005.

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    this is insane, but unfortunately about 10x of them are GUESTS!!!!! i don';t want to make it so you have to register to view, but somehow i want to give them incentive to register..what should i do?

    www.gossiprocks.com/forum
     
    Dekker, Sep 19, 2005 IP
  2. GuyFromChicago

    GuyFromChicago Permanent Peon

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    99% of them are likely search engine spiders.
     
    GuyFromChicago, Sep 19, 2005 IP
  3. IamNed

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    #3
    yea or some of them will register...
     
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    Oddly I am experiencing the opposite on one of my sites.. 5700 members and only 31 posts :confused:
     
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  5. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #5
    Can you check the user agent (easily) with phpBB? That would tell you right away.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 19, 2005 IP
  6. Dekker

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    only 3-4 are bots, and they come once in a while. awstats doesn't show that many, i get alot of unique IPs. and yeah i can tell the user agent with the ip look up thingy. and session ids are disabled, so there's only 1 per IP.

    and i dunno...i've never heard of a forum or a site being attacked by 500 spiders at the same time :p and we're only a month old. google doesn't even have us yet
     
    Dekker, Sep 19, 2005 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #7
    If you don't use sessions it could be AOL (or any other service that uses proxies). Each request comes from a different IP.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 19, 2005 IP
  8. Dekker

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    does each IP eat bandwith? we got linked to on a fairly popular blog. but now my bandwith is skyrocketing, 4 gigs a day
     
    Dekker, Sep 19, 2005 IP
  9. GuyFromChicago

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    I think you just answered your own question:)
     
    GuyFromChicago, Sep 20, 2005 IP
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    Hmm... Well are you getting a lot of refers from real sites with real links on them? That seems like the easiest way to check. If they are legitimate users and people are not signing up... you might consider placing some additional guest only ads to help monetize things for the non-contributing traffic.
     
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    How old is your domain name? You could have got de-sandboxed
     
    mightyb, Sep 20, 2005 IP
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    mihnea007 Banned

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    There are 127 users online :: 32 Members, 4 Hidden and 91 Guests

    Most users ever online was 537

    Yeap, I think most of them are reffered by the blog, although some may be spiders
     
    mihnea007, Sep 21, 2005 IP
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    its most likely that day you got a deep crawl by one of the search engines. I had the same thing - 721 users online. Yahoo and Google both did a deep crawl at once.
     
    joeychgo, Sep 21, 2005 IP