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Tracking
Google and Googlebot Using PHP
No
one alive can deny the force of Google
and how powerful it has become in the Web
design and Web hosting business. Many people
work for hours and hours, days and days
to make sure the Web site they have is
ready for Google and it's Googlebot whenever
it might come for a visit.
The problem
most folks run into though is how do you
know it is there? Some forum and blogging
scripts come with better ways to track bots
as they comb through your pages. What about
everyone else though? Well this is where
these scripts come in. All you need is to
be able to parse PHP through your Web site
and you too can track the Googlebot even
better.
I am not
totally sure who wrote these PHP scripts
up first, but I have not seen it talked about
many places at all. Hopefully this will a
handy tool for you to use.
Easy
Version With
this version of the script you need to replace
the "yourdomainname.com" with your own domain
name and replace "you" with your
E-mail address.
<?
if(eregi("googlebot",$HTTP_USER_AGENT))
{
mail("you", "Googlebot detected on yourdomainname.com", "Google
has crawled yourdomainname.com");
}
?>
Expert Version
<?
if(eregi("googlebot",$HTTP_USER_AGENT))
{
if ($QUERY_STRING != "")
{$url = "http://".$SERVER_NAME.$PHP_SELF.'?'.$QUERY_STRING;}
else
{$url = "http://".$SERVER_NAME.$PHP_SELF;}
$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
mail("you", "Googlebot detected on http://$SERVER_NAME", "$today
- Google crawled $url");
}
?>
Hopefully this will be
of some use to people working on their Web
sites who want to keep a better eye on where
the Googlebot is looking at.
