Googlebot Wont Go
Home
I have 'Googlebot' crawl my site every day like a dispossessed
spirit that can't leave.
It was not always like this, I would go for a month or more
before he came to my site and then would only crawl a few
pages and leave again.
This has been going on now for two months or more, I've been
watching the stats on my server everyday seeing just where
he goes. He will crawl a few pages one day, and the next some
other pages, and then finally leave until the morrow. After
just three or four weeks, I noticed I got an infestation of
lesser bots calling as well, some I have never heard of before,
they seem to follow 'Googlebot' as though he is the Pied Piper
of Hamelin.
What caused this infestation of bots?
Well, I got interested in rss feeds, I thought "What a good
tool for drawing traffic to my site."
So I studied up on rss feeds until I understood what was
involved. Now I am no 'techie', and the most programming I
do is html in 'Notepad', making my own web pages.
Rss feeds use a similar language called xml, so it was easy
to understand for me, and I was able to quickly make up an
rss feed page in 'Notepad', placed it on my server, downloaded
a 'feed reader' software, opened it up, placed the address
of my feed in the 'feed reader', and up came my rss feed in
the reader. It was so easy I wrote an ebook to tell everyone
how to do it, it's called "Really Simple RSS".
There are many rss directories and syndication services that
I submitted the address of my rss feed to, so other people
can look at the feed in their 'feed reader' and see what articles
I am posting.
Some of the 'subscribers' to the feed actually come and visit
my site to see what it's all about, which happened almost
straight away after I submitted my feed.
In less than 36 hours, 'Googlebot' found my feed!
In a little over two days later Yahoo's 'Slurp' bot found
my feed, and from there on they have both been crawling my
site with the lesser bots every single day.
They crawl everything, they crawl all my pdf ebooks, they
look at a few pages in 'Webmasters Corner', they even look
at my 'Bonus Reports', and even descend the staircase into
my 'Secret Vault'!
When will they go home and stop prying into my little secrets?
I know I encourage them like leaving cheese for a mouse,
by putting more pdf files, software and ebooks on my site
every day, so I suppose the poor bots can't ever keep up!
I found out that like mice like cheese, that 'Googlebot'
likes my pdf files, he has been fitted with digital spectacles
so he is now able to actually read keyword rich pdf files
all the way through to the end! So he likes pdf files.
So I have obliged him!
I put 85 pdf files up on my server one night just to keep
him happily reading! I have put many more up on the server
since, and will continue to create more pdf files of classic
authors for free download, just to keep him calling with his
'friends'.
Isn't this a laugh?
It's like taking in a stray dog, feeding him, housing him,
and the dog loosing the ability to wander off again and finding
you have got a lodger for life.
My site's ranking has risen considerably both in Yahoo and
Google, but for some reason that escapes me for the time being,
my ranking rose more quickly in Yahoo and they rank it much
higher than Google. I may well find the reason for this before
long and put it in another article.
So if you are a web site owner struggling to get noticed
by the web bots, don't put it off much longer, put up an rss
feed with articles about your products or service and not
only will 'Googlebot' call with his 'friends', but actual
live people will call too.
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