First I thougt it was my robots meta tag that was doing the harm, but i havent seen the google bot for one week in any of the forums i visit. What happened to the bot? Any one having this problem?
I had a problem with my web host (ValueWeb) at the beginning of the month. They blocked Googlebot from all of my sites (I think all of their shared servers) for 8 days. I lost a lot of rankings in Google for a while as my pages disappeared from the index, but they are back now. There is a post somewhere here in the DP forums where a member got their tech support to admit they had a router blocking Googlebot. Perhaps you should check with your web host if the forums in question are your own.
I had contacted my host and theres no problem with them. May be he will come back soon. I really miss him. i mean the bot.
There are a lot of people posting HUGE activity from the Google Bot in the last two days including myself. __________________ Blood Alcohol Estimator | Submit your site - No Recip Needed | Get Your Site Ranked Quick - Coop Network | Health Books
My site "suffered" a similar state for the past week but my stats showed that Gbot is back last night...
Same here... was averaging 300-400 pages a day, dropped to 20 for a week, last night decided to sneak through and hit 2000. Maybe my page count will get back up again, lost over 2000 indexed pages in just over a week.
Yeah, that's what my host told me too. I had to read about the real problem here on DP from a more persistent customer who got the straight scoop. Hopefully, there is no problem on your end and Gbot returns soon.
From January this year googlebot visits .. I would say 60% less then before. This would be for my website of course.