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Fred Wilson

9 Years Ago

Questions About Constant Visitors To My Images

I am wondering I seem to get the same visitors to my images The Russian Federation new York ,Beverly hills, etc never any comments, yesterday one of my images showed the Russian federation new York has accesd this image over 10 days straight what's up??????

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Janine Riley

9 Years Ago

Hi Fred - welcome.

They are called " Bots" .
Simply stated: bots are little techno thingies that crawl /search the web in order to get everything placed correctly on search engines. The more you use social media to place your links - the more bot hits you will get. Keyword are very important .
They are good things, & you want to be "hit" by bots.
Twitter is probably the best for reach - but I don't know how to do that yet.

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

These are bots. If you know what a bot is please ignore the next bit

Search bots.....

Romeo
China
Guangzhou
and several others not mentioned here are search bots. We NEED them

Why do we need bots…. and why should you allow them some access to your site

A search engine is a site that allows people to put in a search term and find a site for what they are looking for.

A bot, or web crawler, is the little programme (think of a little robot made up of 0s and 1s) who runs around around the web with a thousand mates, checking out all the sites by following links. One link leads to another 5 links and those 5 links lead to another 10 links etc etc. The bots all scurry around and report back to the big programme, the search engine, what they find on the pages the links lead to.

The search engine waits, all knowing and, when someone then comes along and asks for FISH, the search engine smiles to itself and, patting a bot on the head that brought back the FISH descriptions, tells the person all the sites that are talking about fish.

That’s a bot.

Abbie

 

Sydne Archambault

9 Years Ago

@Janine, Bot I wish they had a credit card.

 

John Groves

9 Years Ago

Hi, I had an issue with the 'bot' listing in visitors. It was just a pain to go through the listings and try and pick out who was not a 'bot', the solution is, if you are using an 'artstswebite', is to sign up and use google analytics. You can compare the 'visitors' and the 'users' (google stat) to see what percentage are 'real people'. What I came up with was of the 8000 'visits' for June 636 were real users as opposed to the bots. So it is just under 10%, not a great percentage, but still a good overall number to a website,
(how many of them were in any way serious about looking for something to purchase is another question).

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

google would only work if you had it on both sites. but i get very few people going to the artist site compared to the faa side. on an average day on faa i may get around 2000-3000 hits or so. but on artist site (when my analytics was working), i would get like 12 per day.

bots do also go to the artist website. they go every place.


---Mike Savad

 

John Groves

9 Years Ago

Mike Savad

Interesting, do you have an easy way of separating the two sets of visitor stats? It would be great if I could find out what sort of visitor rate I get from the FAA search algorithms vs my own site promotion. (I had assumed the artistwebsite was just a url mirror and graphic front end.)

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

personally i don't look at local stats. i have stat counter for my bio page, it tells me 10% of the info. sometimes it tells you it's a bot. but in the end only the sales matter. what they look at doesn't matter. and it's usually totally random.

the artist site is technically a mirror, but it's not, it's more like a suburb of the original. a gated community. where the images all go back to FAA, the stats only stay on that side of it. however if they find pixels, and all the other flavors of FAA, those count for your grand total.

but i try not to ever look at stats, just the grand total, the numbers won't teach you a lot.

---Mike Savad

 

John Groves

9 Years Ago

Thanks for that Mike;

I shall leave the numbers alone for a few months then have another look, I did have the feeling that randomness was going to be a major factor :-)

Cheers

John

 

Fred Wilson

9 Years Ago

thanks everyone for your input
fred

 

Mike Norkin

9 Years Ago

Yes, this helps greatly. I get alot from Beverly Hills and I sometimes worried that someone was taking my low res images

 

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