I may be asking a dumb question but I noticed in my stats reports that Googlebot is making a huge number of visits in the last 2 days. Here's what I mean:

Thru Sunday: 7 hits
Thru Monday: 315 hits
Tuesday Morning: 521 hits total

What the heck is it doing?

How long has your site been up?
Do you use sessions that are passed through the URL?
About how many pages do you have for Googlebot to soak up?

Originally Posted by cptnwinky

How long has your site been up?

Since January 1st

Do you use sessions that are passed through the URL?

Not sure what you mean

About how many pages do you have for Googlebot to soak up?

50-60 plus individual posts. Hope I answered that right

Ah, I should have looked at the link in your sig before. I'm assuming that is the site your talking about right?

I see your using PHPBB, which is a nice board however certain bugs have been found with it and Googlebot. This could be one of those problems or it might not be. Best to try though...

Ok, nevermind. I was going to look up this problem in the phpbb.com message boards but it appears that they were hacked and are now down..

http://phpbb.com/

So I can't provide a fix to try as one is outlined in detail there. However, I feel that the problem is with each URL sessions are being passed so Google thinks each page is a new and unique page each time it visits it. Kind of getting caught up in a loop and eating your bandwidth and resources to no end. I suppose you could try this...

Create a .htaccess file and place it in your home directory with this in it (or modify the one there)

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off

and in....(I'm trying to remember how phpbb is layed out)...I think application.php if that is not there try putting this in header.php, in either case at the very top.

PHP Code:

ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', false); 


If any of this causes problems then obviously delete them. The only other reason I can imagine that Google is hitting you so hard is that you are NFL related website and it's looking for new information about the super bowl to update it's index.

Thanks for the response! I'll try to integrate those codes later today.