A New 'bot In Town

I don't wanna hear it.

(to the Eagles tune)

I have had many visits from Tianjin China... about 10 consecutive as well.

don't worry,

99.99% of all bots belong to google. they are just indexing worldwide for searches.

you can see the bots here. post a photo on social media, and there are hundreds, and you don't even know they were there.

I've got one image that has about 40 hits from Putian, China in the past couple of days. Not sure what that's about, since bots usually go through multiple images. I haven't seen hits from Bratislava yet.

lets say it's friends with kiez germany... in school i would never see or even know about these country names. and now oddly it's relevant.


---Mike Savad

Any one remember Czechoslovakia - Well - it broke into the Czech republic and the Slovak republic. Regardless of where your visitor comes from - or who or what it is - at least something/somebody - is looking at it.

They're not looking, they have no eyes or pockets/wallets, they are bots.

You want your images to be seen and found by potential customers, right? Than you should be happy, that bots are around. The disadvantage: Bots make your views count less informative.

if bots bring customer what is the ratio? 5k to 1/10k to 1? it seems that customer doesn't know where bots have been or bots have lost their way in spaghetti of images,comments,titles,alt tags etc.

A Souppes - probably one in a million

long way to go :( I wish they were not seen those bots in the stats i'd rather not know.

The 'bots - if they're accomplishing anything at all - are just making our nice big preview images available to Google's image search, where anyone can grab them for nothing and use them on web pages, blogs, presentations etc. I doubt that anyone uses Google to find and buy wall art. I would rather have my images available only through FAA, to be seen by people who might actually buy something.

true, preview size is good enough for any web use, no need to pay just get it from google image search.

I have this one since today "Oslo - Norway" a bot?

"...I doubt that anyone uses Google to find and buy wall art..."


Jim,

Go to Google and type in wall art. Numerous wall art for sale/sites sites show up almost immediately.


Personally, I like seeing the bots in my visitors stats. At least I know the images are being looked at in some form or fashion. If I received zero visitors, now that might be depressing, lol.


You can get pretty much the same search results using Bing also, but i don't know if they use bots. Probably do though.

Ahh that explains the Kiez, Germany visits I have been receiving. Prior to these I had visits from Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.

I just uploaded 2 photos and Kiez hit them within minutes. I have to wonder how this works. It seems like the server must somehow notify the 'bot that new URLs have been created. The bots couldn't possibly be scanning every server in the world, following every link from every page, that fast.

it's gotta be aliens...


---Mike Savad

I probably should have ignored that Facebook friend request from "Svetlana" in Kiez.