With it they:
-Detect and block a lot of hacking attempts
-track in real time crawlers and spiders activity on their site
-follow day after day how their site is known by the main search-engines and social bookmark websites
-know the keyword used to find their site and the corresponding entry pages.
If like them you would like to limit the risk of hacking and have all these informations to help you to Search Engines Optimized your site, install CrawlTrack, that site is here to give you all the needed informations.
What is a crawler?
According Wikipedia: "A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other less frequently used names for web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, BOTS, and worms (Kobayashi and Takeda, 2000)."
Crawlers visits count for more than 73% of the pages viewed on www.Crawltrack.fr; some are usefull, other far less and even dangerous (46% hacking attempts on www.crawltrack.fr).
What is CrawlTrack?
CrawlTrack is a free application (license GNU GPL), which allow to track search-engines crawlers and spiders visits on your website and to follow day after day your position in the main search engines and social bookmarks index.
If an hacking attempts is detected, CrawlTrack is able to block it.
Datas are displayed in the form of tables and of graphics for easy viewing.
CrawlTrack is a PHP script using MySQL database.
CrawlTrack exist for the moment in English, Spanish, German, Turkish, Dutch and French, the translators for other languages are welcome.
