From the 1st of this month until the 15th, Googlebot visited pages on my website about 4,000 times. My site has about 1,000 pages, so that number seems about normal. However, since the 16th, the Googlebot has visited over 80,000 times. What the heck does this mean?
have you recently starting building links, or gotten a few high quality links to your website ? that might explain it. the higher your pages/site is ranked the more google visits you usally.
But why the big jump? From about 265 per day to over 13,000? What would cause this? It's freakin' me out.
Google are in love with your site.. Or have some doubt and want to be sure (faked doubt) What the URl of this site ?
I'm constantly link building. There's nothing extraordinary about my link building activities in the last week. I have received some sitewide links on low PR sites, but that shouldn't be the cause.
It's the first one on the left in my siggy. What's weird is that I just checked the # of indexed pages, and Google now has me at almost 4,000.
Check what? I get the stats straight from my webserver, and I get the # of indexed pages using the site: operator at Google.
Good for you man, this is grate... As if you don't want the bot to stay in your site and keep on hitting your site then you can set the crawl rate in webmaster tools to low or medium it it's already fast, It's your choice.
I don't mind the extra traffic. I have 50,000+ pageviews per day on my server (from about 30 sites), and the additional Google traffic hasn't seemed to have affected my performance. I'm just worried that either Google is really sniffing me out for something I did wrong (I try to stay squeaky clean), or that I did something really really right, and Google loves me (I just want to know why, if that's the case). Has anyone run into this issue?
Sorry i did'nt but i would love to be in your place, Cheers. And f you find out what you did right/wrong please post your experience.
since there's no performance result from traffic jump, maybe bot visits were counted as traffic. try to observe where really those visitors came from.
The # of pageviews hasn't changed. My stats app doesn't count SE bots as pageviews, only as separate unique visitors. I have a separate report that shows visits by bots (and can even track where they've been and what pages they read), and that's where I'm getting my totals. The amount of used bandwidth has gone up, but since the bot has to download the page to index it, that's not surprising.