Mod Release: GoogleBot Detector (1.4.1)

[ZacFields]

Well, the only way you can really be over-googled is if you're either:

A. Experiencing page load time problems on your site

B. You're having problems with exceeding your monthly bandwidth.

Otherwise, the more the merrier! Tek, your home page on your site is actually a PR6 right now, so I would assume google never leaves your site. At a PR4 (which is what my index.php page is) Google is supposed to spider your site once every 24 hours approximately. Well if you have several thousand (or hundreds of thousands) of pages, it will take google more than 24 hours to scan your site, thus it will essentially never leave.

Google never leaves my site. You can easily tell that from my google logs from this mod on my forum.

Remember if google visits your site a lot like me and tekguru, it would be a good idea to clear those logs at least once a week. as of right now the .script does not do it by itself already.

Zac

[tekguru]

Zac I'll stop worring then <img> Question though how do you find out he PR rating and what it means?

[ZacFields]

TekGuru:

I saw your Google PR rating using the google toolbar I have installed on my internet explorer, but you can also check it at sites like this one: http://www.prchecker.net/check.php

Basically your google PR rating is compiled by how many people link to you, and what the google PR rating is of sites that are linked to you. For instance, if you had a bunch of PR8 and PR7 sites that had links to your site, then that would affect your PR ratingin a positive way.

Your site having a PR rating of 6 tells me a lot of things. For one it tells me that your site is very well established and that you probably get a lot of people coming to your site from search engines. Basically it means that google hits your site very hard and probably places you very high on search results relevant to your site.

Another important thing it tells me, and you should be aware of is that a single text link on your site is worth upwards of $40 per month. Because being linked to a PR6 site is very good for sites that lack a PR rating.

In short, you could get on textlinkads.com and sell text links on your index page for $30-$40 for a month's worth each. If you placed a block on your homepage and sold 10 text links a month you could bring $300-$400 easy.

So congratulations to you Tekguru. You've done an outstanding job with your website by google standards and you stand to be able to make a lot of money based simply on your google PR rating.

Zac

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Just a question regarding what was mentioned above about showing googlebot in the online box.

Could you inject or insert a new user in the user database?

I would assume the user database would have info such:

username: me
ip: a.b.c.d

Could you insert in the database:

username: googlebot
ip: 66.249.x.x

Would that recognize and register in the online box? Or am I out to lunch on this thought? LOL

[tekguru]

Cheers for that Xac one lives and occasionally learns.

Very interested in the text ads as we only just break even with the Google banners.

I thought though that one can not have any conflicting ads when one is running Google advertising though?

Oh and did you mean http://www.text-link-ads.com/ for the text ads?

As this if viable coule let us make a bit of money at last!

[ZacFields]

Yeah. For some reason they didn't accept my site (the text-link-ads.com site) I think it's because my portal.php page is only a PR 2 even though my index.php page is a PR4.

Basically on text-link-ads.com the people pay you just for the link, not for clicks or anything like that. Google ads perform very poorly on forum sites due to the large amount of return visitors (return visitors generally won't click on ads)

With a PR6, you will be able to monetize that site (and btw google shouldn't mind your text links) very easily. If text-link-ads doesn't get you what you want, you should try listing an auction on ebay. I've seen some good text links sell on ebay from time to time so you could throw it out there for $30 for a text link on your website for one month. And promise them you are only going to sell 10 links or something. You should be able to pull that off.

Good luck to you tekguru... with a little research you can definitely make some money on that site.

Zac

[sanji]

Working fine... I got 3000 pages viewed by google in less than 24 hours!

It would be great, as someone suggested, to also have google bot indicated as "google" on the who is online box on the portal. Is that feasible?

sanji

[ZacFields]

Just a question regarding what was mentioned above about showing googlebot in the online box.

Could you inject or insert a new user in the user database?

I would assume the user database would have info such:

username: me
ip: a.b.c.d

Could you insert in the database:

username: googlebot
ip: 66.249.x.x

Would that recognize and register in the online box? Or am I out to lunch on this thought? LOL

That wouldn't be of any use because the googlebot would first have to log on to the site in order to be shown, so you'de have to bypass that. There is a modification that allows the googlebot and other bots to be shown in your users online. The problem is that I don't believe it has been ported to integramod yet.

If somebody finds me the link to the specific modification I can try to look at it and see if it will work. I just don't know what it's called right off-hand.

Zac

[sanji]

What about this MOD : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/phpbb-s ... vt663.html

sanji

[tekguru]

Cheers Zac, will give it a go!

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

I finally got mine working - had to remove google and add it again to work.

My only thing is now, I only have 1 google IP that continues to come back (66.249.65.110) never any other google IP's

[.QUACK.Major.Pain]

Hey Zacfields, Your link is no good anymore.
You have another location?