Re: Finding my site with Google

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Which raises a question for which I've never known an answer.

My web site counter registers a couple of hundred hits a week.  How many 
of those are likely to be web crawlers and other non-human hits?

I've heard people way smarter than me give wildly varying answers.



On 9/2/2012 2:39 PM, franz400 wrote:
> Since you want to be found by google, perhaps google is the best source
> of info. They have (free) info in their webmaster area.
> Many questions answered, but this one below lets you submit your site to
> be crawled.
> btw - depending on your web code - their crawler can have issues if
> you web pages dynamically created, and you don't take steps to
> give the crawler info (how should a crawler categorize you if no
> real info activated by the crawler...)
> http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34397
>
> Jim Franz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Wills" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Finding my site with Google
>
>
> > How Google works is a specialty area and is not an exact science. It's
> > more
> > of an art. Aka who knows.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Wills
> > http://mikewills.me