Want to know when Google is visiting your website?
TURTLE gave us this information last year and thought it would be a good thing to share:
The googlebot code for the bottom of a page is
<?php
if(eregi("googlebot",$HTTP_USER_AGENT))
{
if ($QUERY_STRING != "")
{$url = "http://".$SERVER_NAME.$PHP_SELF.'?'.$QUERY_STRING;}
else
{$url = "http://".$SERVER_NAME.$PHP_SELF;}
$today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
mail("googlescan@mydomain.com", "Googlebot detected on http://$SERVER_NAME", "$today - Google crawled $url");
}
?>If your pages end in .htm or .html
be sure to add
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html .shtml
to your .htaccess file.
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googlescan@mydomain.comWould of course need to be changed to YOUR email address. I added an email address to my domain specifically for google. ONLY purpose for that email addy is for google. All other emails that would come into that addy would be dumped.
About the .htaccess file:This file is put into your root directory and directs traffic in many ways...permanent redirect, passwords, lots of things.
Read about .htaccess files here. That's one of the best tutorials on the subject I have seen!
But as that site says:
Some sites do not allow use of htaccess files, since depending on what they are doing, they can slow down a server overloaded with domains if they are all using htaccess files. I can't stress this enough: You need to make sure you are allowed to use htaccess before you actually use it. Some things that htaccess can do can compromise a server configuration that has been specifically setup by the admin, so don't get in trouble.
.htaccess is the file extension. It is not file.htaccess or somepage.htaccess, it is simply named .htaccess
If you are allowed to make an .htaccess file, and do not already have one (some website management software like cpanel will make on when doing passwords, etc) you can make one simply:
Open Notepad
Paste this in: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html .shtml
File Save As: .htaccess
Then upload that file to your website.
Done.
