Most users ever online was 379, 19-05-2005 at 11:33 AM.

[Ellis]

What happened?

The most you get on here now is 2 or 3 max

C'mon guys we're, well most of us, are pretty amateurish at this, should we help each other out a little?

Heads together! - bigger profits!

 

[Brassneck]

May be something to do with Google spidering the forum - I get that sometimes on one of my forums

Stephen.

 

[Ellis]

"Google spidering the forum"

Is that bad?

That should be good surely or am I being naieve? (spelling)

 

[Brassneck]

It's the way Google finds pages to add to its search engine. It is a good thing although see http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/newpostinthread1673.html also.

Stephen.

 

[Ellis]

and at 11:57 on the 4th October 2005 there are 3, sorry 2, oh there's 3 again now .... whoooopy sh*t

 

[storebuilder]

The forum software counts the number of visitors online but doesn't differentiate between actual users and "bots".

So if you get a load of spiders come along at once then that's how you get the high figure.

 

[charliecharlie is verified member.]

64 at the moment which aint bad at all
aint you lot got nothing to do on a friday afternoon

 

[paul]

What's up Charlie, you been using the wayback machine too much lately

 

[Jeewhizz]

might be googlebot!

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

Yes its the SE Bots, Google and Yahoo go crazy indexing the site often. I have even put measures in place to limit the amount of information the Googlebot captures.

 

[charliecharlie is verified member.]

Yes its the SE Bots, Google and Yahoo go crazy indexing the site often. I have even put measures in place to limit the amount of information the Googlebot captures.

dont be so modest!

 

[robrob is verified member.]

dont be so modest!

Its true, I had a site that I had to limit googlebot on as it was smacking it too much!

I assume google must keep it in a cage for abit and starve it!

 

[charliecharlie is verified member.]

i have a forum too with mostly my own faked member posts - i get quite excited when i see 50+ users shame no one else does and f**king replies!!