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How To: Monitor Search Engine Visits On Your Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog

24 Jan

SEO is key for all blogs to succeed.

Although part of SEO is seeing when and where bots visit your blog.

Crawl Track has the fix.

Crawl Track allows you to watch visitors, hacking attempts, and bot visits.

The software is free but does need to be manually installed in your MySQL server.

Here is how to set it up.

(You need a server with php 4.3 or higher, GD2 graphic library to see the graphs, and 1 MySQL database).

  1. Download the software.
  2. Upload it to your server.
  3. Create a new MySQL database for crawl track.
  4. Visit the location of crawl track on your server (usually /crawltrack/ or what ever folder you put it in).
  5. Select your language.
  6. Enter your database info.
  7. Create an admin account.
  8. Create a website tag.
  9. Insert your website tag into your WordPress theme (appearance –> editor). Remember it needs the tags.
  10. Then you can see all search engine bots. (all 4,000 of them).
  11. You can also see what your visitors visited, and if anyone attempted to hack your blog.
  12. If you want you can set your stats to be public but remember in your robots.txt to blacklist the crawltrack folder since there is over 10,000 links.

Note: This is for self hosted blogs/websites that have access to .php. Wordpress.com/blogger/etc do not have access to .php (or mysql). While you can use it on non-php (html based) software (say media wiki,or phpbb forums) you will need access to your .htaccess files.

I use the software every day to monitor how many search engine pings I get, along with visitors, and hacking attempts.

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  1. Robert Wagner SBA Financing

    January 24, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    Giving away your secrets. I know that this works first hand. I will give it a try. Always good to have data about who visits your site. This sounds simple to do.
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    • dreamsburnred

      January 24, 2010 at 7:07 pm

      Indeed, although the all the rest of the stat tools track visitors Crawl Track seems to be the only one that tracks bots.

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  2. Robert Wagner SBA Financing

    January 24, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    I just went over to Crawl Track website. I see that they show backlinks to your site. Do you know if this info is the same as in Google webmaster tools?
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    • dreamsburnred

      January 24, 2010 at 8:58 pm

      Not really. Crawl Track lists how many each major search engine sees on your site while webmaster shows the actual links.

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  4. Top 5 Tools To Track Visits To Your Wordpress/Blogspot Blog | Canadian Tech Blogger

    February 23, 2010 at 10:00 pm

    [...] Crawl track is .php based so it can also monitor search engine robot visits as explained in an earlier post of mine. [...]

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