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Suddenly swarmed by the Slurp Spider.

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by pictureboarduk, Jul 1, 2007.

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    My site has been running for 3 weeks now and I've had an average of around 3 slurp spiders on there at any one time. All of a sudden today I got hit by 70 of them all at once.

    What could be the reason for this? The only thing I can think of is ( and I doubt it is) is that I uploaded to sitemap to Google last night, but the wasn't formatted correctly so failed anyway.

    Why the sudden swarm by the slurp?

    Thanks
     
    pictureboarduk, Jul 1, 2007 IP
  2. SticKer

    SticKer Well-Known Member

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    i used to get like 4-5 at a time, but in the last few days it jumped like 8-10 and today it was an all time high of about 18 yahoo bots at a time. i havent checked the total of the bots/day but its surely going to be a larger number today
     
    SticKer, Jul 1, 2007 IP
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  3. pictureboarduk

    pictureboarduk Well-Known Member

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    Serious, mine went from like 5 to 80! Gotta be a reason for this.
     
    pictureboarduk, Jul 1, 2007 IP
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    stickysnail Active Member

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    #4
    Maybe you put something fresh and useful on your site. Or maybe you have been putting links to your site from other locations that are just catching on.
     
    stickysnail, Jul 1, 2007 IP
  5. sahmothers.com

    sahmothers.com Well-Known Member

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    #5
    This happened to me yesterday also or possibly on Saturday. It went up from around 5 a day to 81 on at the same time !!

    Weird !
     
    sahmothers.com, Jul 2, 2007 IP
  6. djixas

    djixas Well-Known Member

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    Yes, same here. Noticed ~2 weeks ago.

    I got like 1000 hits from Google and over 2000 from Yahoo...
     
    djixas, Jul 3, 2007 IP
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    lpstong Notable Member

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    #7
    I noticed both Yahoo and Google bots craweled one of my sites as well. But I figure that happens when you just finished building the site and submitting it to SE et cetera. Of course their gonna be on your sites like white on rice.
     
    lpstong, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  8. Sockmoney

    Sockmoney Peon

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    For some reason Yahoo's bot has been on our site 3 times more than G lately... yet we get much more traffic from G than from Y.

    Not sure what Slurp is up to.
     
    Sockmoney, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  9. sweetfunny

    sweetfunny Banned

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    #9
    Yeah Slurp is a hungry bugger, 1GB and nearly 100,000 hits of plain text.

    [​IMG]
     
    sweetfunny, Jul 3, 2007 IP
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    Blogspotter Notable Member

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    It sure is hungry..
     
    Blogspotter, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  11. SUB

    SUB Well-Known Member

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    I have also had a sudden rush of 50 yahoo bots on my site the same time from different ip's, if i remember correctly it happen either the 29th or the 30th of june.

    Thats when i updated my blog for the whole "iphone release" and the "iphone line". I figured that may be that was the case.

    May be i could be wrong?
     
    SUB, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  12. MrX

    MrX Well-Known Member

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    They've been having their way with my site as well. I can't wash the dirty feeling away... :(
     
    MrX, Jul 3, 2007 IP
  13. iMarketingGuru

    iMarketingGuru Well-Known Member

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    #13
    I feel violated as well..I have a loot of content but I saw that dramatic change as well quickly.
     
    iMarketingGuru, Jul 4, 2007 IP
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    kirby009 Peon

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    sound like those spider i just passing though. a new sight like that. hmm funny.
     
    kirby009, Jul 6, 2007 IP
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    #15
    Yeah I experienced this as well not to long back, over 100 bots on my forum. Crazy!
     
    cubechris, Jul 9, 2007 IP
  16. ThreeGuineaWatch

    ThreeGuineaWatch Well-Known Member

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    #16
    Is that from one week, month, or all time?
     
    ThreeGuineaWatch, Jul 9, 2007 IP
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    sweetfunny Banned

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    That was for the 4 days of July, its well over 2GB now. Funny thing is Yahoo brings almost zero traffic, if i didnt have a stack of bandwidth id honestly just block Yahoo completely.
     
    sweetfunny, Jul 9, 2007 IP