search engine and stats

• 

  cbs321 · Member · May 11, 2010 at 2:36 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  My stats page informs me that people are finding my page by entering the date into a search engine. Is this a bot? What’s the deal.

  cbs

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  udosero · Member · May 11, 2010 at 2:55 am

  • Copy link

  Does it really matter if it is? I only see that as a problem if they are doing a denial of service attack or if they are posting automated spam comments

• 

  udosero · Member · May 11, 2010 at 2:56 am

  • Copy link

  Also, the date is both in the post and in the URL. It’s normal for that to be indexed by search engines. People search for many things, including dates.

• 

  timethief · Member · May 11, 2010 at 3:16 am

  • Copy link

  @cbs321
  WordPress.com stats do not display visits from bots. The following are not counted:

  * Visits from registered users of the blog when they are logged in.
  * Visits to uploaded documents and files
  * Visits from browsers that do not execute javascript or load images.
  * GoogleBot and other search engine spiders.
  Read more here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/

  Please bookmark the link to support documentation.