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handyman

13-12-2006 10:58

Anyone else seeing this traffic (webmasters)

All of a sudden I am seeing a fantastic amount of traffic from a unknown web spider. It's had 50meg of my bandwidth already and has knocked googlebot off the top.

Can't seem to work out what it is as well.

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Any ideas?

bopdude

13-12-2006 11:11

Re: Anyone else seeing this traffic (webmasters)

I can't help ( big supprise :rolleyes ) but a google brought up a list of other sites with the same problem, being talked about everywhere bythe looks of it. A lot of peeps sayingto use a prog called trap the spider

Quote:

Originally Posted by site

A spider trap is a script or series of scripts designed to attract a search engine spider and keep it in the spider trap until it has been determined that is a search engine spider.

HTH

handyman

13-12-2006 11:21

Re: Anyone else seeing this traffic (webmasters)

Cheers bop, I looked into that and it looks good.

One of the problems is not having time to go through the site lods several time a say. It logs the last 100 hits but this rarely covers more than a few hours so it's a case of checking more :(

Knobbly

13-12-2006 12:47

Re: Anyone else seeing this traffic (webmasters)

Quote:

Originally Posted by handyman (Post 34178215)

In awstats it'll give you a time and date of the last time it visited, cross reference that with your raw log file to find the IP address

chickendippers

14-12-2006 09:43

Re: Anyone else seeing this traffic (webmasters)

Yes, and I've also started getting lots of spam posts on my forum and fake file uploads.

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