Spiders?

[eyescene]

What are these things at the bottem of the forum that says Yahoo! Slurp Spiders (1,595), Google Spiders (33), MSNBot Spiders (10)? What do they do and are tehy good or bad spiders?

[Hermione]

They run around and gather the information needed to show up on Google and other search engines.

[aaron]

They run around and gather the information needed to show up on Google and other search engines.

That sums it up nicely.

[Hermione]

Thanks King. There is a notorious website run by a certain USM professor, name will not be mentioned. He brags about how many hits his site has and posts DNS info to show how famous he is. I've always wanted to explain spiders to him and burst his balloon, or at least let a little air out of it. ;)

[bpitt]

Just spray'em with some Raid, that'll fix his ballon.

[eyescene]

Just spray'em with some Raid, that'll fix his ballon. :laugh::laugh::laugh: you'll make him:angry2:

[aaron]

Thanks King. There is a notorious website run by a certain USM professor, name will not be mentioned. He brags about how many hits his site has and posts DNS info to show how famous he is. I've always wanted to explain spiders to him and burst his balloon, or at least let a little air out of it. ;)

Yeah, many people do that. If you really wanted to get nasty, you could explain to him that one person visiting one page on a site could translate to several "hits". Each image loaded on a page is translated to a hit in logs. Lots of images = lots of hits.

[eyescene]

OK thanks that explains it!!

[bpitt]

Tell him that everytime he visit's his own website, it logs it. So, he must visit himself alot.

[Hermione]

Yeah, many people do that. If you really wanted to get nasty, you could explain to him that one person visiting one page on a site could translate to several "hits". Each image loaded on a page is translated to a hit in logs. Lots of images = lots of hits.


Every link opens a new window. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. You can't even look at the site with Firefox, not that you'd actually want to look at all that often.

[bpitt]

So, what's the web address?

[58ford]

Thanks King. There is a notorious website run by a certain USM professor, name will not be mentioned. He brags about how many hits his site has and posts DNS info to show how famous he is. I've always wanted to explain spiders to him and burst his balloon, or at least let a little air out of it. ;)
Now ya done went & made me curious. Would you mind PMing me the site so I can go look?

[mac]

Tell him that everytime he visit's his own website, it logs it. So, he must visit himself alot.

That can be disabled with a blocking cookie.

[Hermione]

If I tell ya'll, it'll just increase his view count. Unless you're in his college at USM, it's not interesting.

[bpitt]

Wow, I just visited the site, and all I can say is that the guy is onto something, or on something.

[TheKing]

you have to look at a combination of unique visitors, page views, time spent on site, lead-in, lead-outs, advertising impressions and page views of actual content as opposed to landing pages to get an accurate idea of how popular or effective your site is at getting the message out.

page views means jack

[SoMissTV]

If I tell ya'll, it'll just increase his view count.

You're probably referring to DePree in the business school. He's the prof who shot the puppy at Canebrake a few years ago.

Stupid ass bastard.

[HubDoc]

Thanks for explaining the spiders in an easily understandable way! I, too, have been wondering what they were and what importance they have!