Anyone know why Googlebot is doing this?

ecchi · 2015-09-27, 01:40 PM

When I started working on my unblockable pop up I initially sent it to an in between page with a META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" to redirect it to it's final destination. That was up for only a few hours before I changed the target to a Perl CGI script. Apart from those few hours, when the page was a pop under there has never been, a link to it. However I did not bother to delete the page.

It had a random number to prevent caching, so it shows as:
bouncepage.shtml?X
where X can be any number between 1 and 1000.

Looking at my logs, I see a couple of IPs repeatedly trying the page with various values for X. Checking these IPs, they are Googlebot. Google has obviously picked up that link with several different numbers, and is looking at them every day.

Anyone have any idea why it would do this?

2015-09-27, 01:40 PM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Anyone know why Googlebot is doing this? When I started working on my unblockable pop up I initially sent it to an in between page with a META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" to redirect it to it's final destination. That was up for only a few hours before I changed the target to a Perl CGI script. Apart from those few hours, when the page was a pop under there has never been, a link to it. However I did not bother to delete the page. It had a random number to prevent caching, so it shows as: bouncepage.shtml?X where X can be any number between 1 and 1000. Looking at my logs, I see a couple of IPs repeatedly trying the page with various values for X. Checking these IPs, they are Googlebot. Google has obviously picked up that link with several different numbers, and is looking at them every day. Anyone have any idea why it would do this?