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How can you tell when you've had a vist from Google?
-Muthu Krishnan

when your site is cached

Your hosting provide you free services to see last 100 visitors. Most of hosting services provide this free. probably u can find something about google visits address there.

You can check when you site was last crawled by Google by entering a search term into Google that brings back your site i.e company/website name and clicking cached which is located at the end of your result.

This tells you the date located at the top.

James

You can check the LOG file of your web site. Googlebot leaves feet if it has visiter your site.

wuzhong wrote:You can check the LOG file of your web site. Googlebot leaves feet if it has visiter your site.

Yes, you are right. Your log file can track Google visiting. It leaves the following track:
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)'
Yahoo leaves another track:
'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)'

But, you can see it only if you run your site on your dedicated server and not using someone else hosting. As fas as I know, hosting companies don't give you an access to their log files. They might provide you with some tools which give you certain information about your visitors.

Have a great day,
Peter

By clicking cached in google SERP.

when you check it through your statcounter or any website statistic tools.

peterko wrote: But, you can see it only if you run your site on your dedicated server and not using someone else hosting. As fas as I know, hosting companies don't give you an access to their log files. They might provide you with some tools which give you certain information about your visitors.

I host with two companies and both of them provide me with log files relevant to my site. Having them will be an advantage. It will let you know how the users finds your site, the most frequently visited link etc. I think all hosting people will provide you with log files.

directfuture wrote:You can check when you site was last crawled by Google by entering a search term into Google that brings back your site i.e company/website name and clicking cached which is located at the end of your result.

This tells you the date located at the top.

James

Yap.... I agree... I also use this kind of method..

You can see through the site cached.. Or if you put google bots into your site, provide by google webmaster, there is an indication there when was the last time that the google bot visited your site..

If you want to see if Google crawl your site try to sign up at this page http://www.mypagerank.net/ and add Googlebot last access to your page

UPLOAD A SITEMAP FILE BY THIS
You need to tell the crawler that what are the pages it should visit and are a part of your site, for this you need to submit a sitemap. SITEMAP IS A .XML FILE HAVING ALL THE INFO ABOUT YOUR SITE.

YOU SHOULD ALWAYS UPLOAD A SITEMAP FILE. IT HELPS YOU TO GET BETTER INDEXED IN GOOGLE AND ALSO DRASTICALLY IMPROVES YOUR LISTING IN GOOGLE.

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FINALLY U CAN CHECK ALL DETAILS IN UR ACCOUNT

the google cache is not a reliable way to tell when google came last.

it only caches once in awhile even if googlebot visits you every day

thanks for this .now i know when google visited you