Visits By Bots?

Bot's or crawlers are what search engines like Google, or Bing use to collect page data for their databases. So when someone searches for your name they might see a link to your fineartamerica.com profile page.

There are other malicious bots as well that hackers send out to probe for open ports on servers, and websites sign up forms for website instillation like WordPress to see if they can take over your site, or spam to it with ads.

The bots are indexing the site so people can find you in a search engine. I don't know of any way to tell the difference other than the main ones that always pop up. The mantra seems to be "don't pay attention to visitor stats. They mean nothing. Only sales count."

bots don't buy things. that's pretty much it. it hardly matters though knowing who is what, it won't help you much in the end. the ratio of views to sales is way out there. ever look at youtube videos - 3 million views, 256 likes? that's how the sales are here more or less, that kind of ratio.

---Mike Savad

It makes sense. I was wrong to understand that people could differenciate those kinds of visits from real ones, then.

Thanks for your answers!

Even it makes your visitor statistics rather useless, if you´re not even visited by bots, you´re not visible at all.

For the past 6 days my website has been visited, many times each day, by Sunnyvale, CA, and looked at every photo I have. Can it be safe to say these visits are Bots?

Hi,

You shouldnt use the 'text' to identify the visit as it can be wrong and also the geographic location can include many users and or bots/servers, use the IP. The IP can be found by mouse hovering over the text, and then the IP pops up.

The IP for your particular 'Sunnyvale CA' text is 68.180.228.246

Using project honey pot: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_68.180.228.246
And myIP.ms: http://myip.ms/info/whois/68.180.228.246

It shows that IP is associated with the Slurp web crawler, that is used by Yahoo.

See here: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/search/SLN22600.html?impressions=true

Although alot of bots are useless spam and hacker bots, some are good and this one is a good one, as Yahoo is a well known search and news site.

HTHs,

Rob.

Thank You

Kista, Sweden anyone? Multiple visits to the same image with the same IP and many visits to random images like 20 at a time

Yes Nikolyn, Kista has had me wondering too. That's a new one I guess.

I just started getting Kista, Sweden this week. This is a new one to me. Visits all day long.

If I had a dollar for every visit from Guangzhou, Beijing, or Kiez, I would be a rich man.

Seoul - South Korea
A bunch of those just today.

Sweden, Denmark, Germany -- hundreds and hundreds of hits (maybe into four figures) just overnight. Crazy! :-)

Wendy, can I have your autograph before you get too famous?

I'm just now getting the Sweden one, Nikolyn. I feel so privileged to be chosen LOL.

Marlene, bots bring fame? I've made it very clear to the The Universe that I want wealth -- not fame! ;-)

As for the Sweden one:

Its not 'Krista Sweden' that you need to tell us, its the IP address that you get by hovering over the text 'Krista Sweden'.

The text can be for many many different computers and people, you need the IP.

From one of the Krista Sweden hits, I found it was IP 212.247.18.198

This IP is used by the bot/company Pricepi, https://pricepi.com/

See: http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_212.247.18.198

All it does is aggregate prices into a database.

Looking at it, they cant even sort by price correctly, so it seems a pretty useless site/service.

HTHs,

Rob.

for several days - even the bots haven't been interested in my art or photographs anymore - it's picked back up some - but the count is still way down from what it was - I don't pay that much attention, however - Only sales count in the real world - bots may index away - but unless someone is looking for YOU, even they are wasting time and effort.

Kista Sweden aka 212 247 18 198 seems to have been visiting everything I have ever done. It's been going on for days! I'm ready for real buyers!

I tweet my work quite regularly and each time I am instantly checked out by Sweden, Kiez, Sunnydale and numerous others. I am beginning to doubt that any of the views on my images are by actual people. How can we tell? How can I know if my marketing strategies are working if I don't know who is real and who is not. As already pointed out previously: bots don't buy art.

Funny. I've been getting constant hits from Beverly Hills, CA and New York, NY. Thanks for the explanations!

The bots visis make a mockery of the Stats....why doesn't FAA ...HIDE THE BOTS !

The truth hurts.........

When will it END!!!???
Enough Kista already!