Posts Tagged ‘googlebot’

[SOLVED] High Unviewed Traffic in Drupal site

It had been bugging me for days. Unviewed traffic for my site was pretty high, more than 5 times the viewed traffic. When I checked AWstats in my cpanel, I found that Googlebot had been eating up 4 times more bandwidth than my normal visitors. So how did I solve? Well, it took me days [...]

Verify Googlebot with PHP

Webmasters maynot be pleased if the content they want to be available to googlebot only is available to any users when they switch their user-agent to Googlebot. But webmaster can easily trackdown this diguised visits. Here is a simple function in php to verify if the visit claiming to be from Googlebot is a true [...]