What is Googlebot?
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Googlebot (Google's spider) finds sites by following links from other sites. The more links to your site it finds the better the chance of Googlebot finding you. They also follow links from their addurl form, but prefer to find links to you instead. You can check to see if / when Googlebot has visited by reviewing your site's logs located on your server. When Googlebot visits you will see a reference to 'The little robot that google.com sends out to spider website content GoogleBot' or 'crawler12.googlebot.com' or something similar. They announce who they are. For more on locating and viewing your server logs you need to speak to your hosting company. Many common website statistics (site stats) programs will gather this information and present an easy to read report for you. |
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