19-06-2005, 10:24 AM
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Can anyone explain this?
 This amount of traffic is extremely high, is this a bug? Also my web stats are not showing anything out of the ordinary however my search keyphrases increased largely since this happened last night. It only lasted a few minuites.. |
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19-06-2005, 10:56 AM
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Re: Can anyone explain this?
My first thought is that it is search engine spider sessions - I'm not sure how your forum software is setup, it looks like vbull?
You can block these spiders from following the forum links - but do you really want to 
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19-06-2005, 12:05 PM
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Re: Can anyone explain this?
but 110 spiders all at the same time? Yeah it's a forum VB. It lasted a few minuites. Very strange, I wonder what Brian thinks about this?
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20-06-2005, 10:17 AM
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Re: Can anyone explain this?
Yep - Yahoo! and Google spiders will often bulk up traffic figures like this - if you use the "Who's online" link and select by username, you should see them pretty clearly listed.
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