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I was tasked by Shaun Anderson from Hobo-web with making a simple, but very effective tracking plugin for wordpress which could track which pages google was crawling and when, this plugin will track the date, time & page, upon each googlebot crawl. It can show you which pages its crawled and show you how many times its hit that page!
If you want to get emailed each time the googlebot is on your page then theres an options page to configure it to your needs…
WordPress Plugin Admin Options Page
The simple admin administration area will allow you to customise the options to suit your blog, you can enable a dashboard widget for instant viewing each time you login.
Dashboard Widget
If you want to show a neat little graph within the widget area, it can do this too..
Dashboard Widget Including Graph
Admin Results – Top 20 Pages
The Plugin options page, shows you the most tracked pages on your blog, the higher the number the more times google has crawaled that particular page.
Admin Results – All Pages
You can instantly ses how many pages have been crawled, when they were crawled for some poeple this information could be very handy.
Admin Results – Filtered
You can filter through the results by Month & Day giving you a day by day account on which pages have been crawled, if you want to assess which pages are being crawled the most.
This plugin is currently Beta, so expect a few hic’ups, as always feel free to leave your thoughts or gripes below,
Download it
If you want to download the plugin head over to the Hobo blog, Subscribe to the feed and you’ll get free access to not only the FREE plugin, but you’ll also get a copy of there FREE Ebook “Beginners Guide to SEO“.
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at 4:45 am
Awesome Marty! Glad to hear it and can’t wait for the updates!
at 9:34 am
Hey Mike, thanks a lot for that, the tracker is making its way to to version 1.2 in the next week or so, with a new interface and a few other bits and pieces, ill be sure to add this in :)
at 9:27 am
Hi Mike, cheers for that…
Im just so tied up in other projects just now, I just cant get the time to focus on anything else…
I’ll make sure the code gets updated though with your fix,
Marty..
at 6:25 pm
Hey Martin! I love Googlebot Tracker. It’s insanely useful. I especially love the ability to get an email each time Googlebot goes to my website.
However, I found that the email I was receiving had the crawl date, crawl time and crawl URL empty.
What I did was change the file hobo-wp-googlebot-tracker/hobo-wp-googlebot-tracker-code.php
I changed lines 65-67 from
$message.= “CrawlDate: “.$data_array['crawldate'].”\n”;
$message.= “CrawlTime: “.$data_array['crawltime'].”\n”;
$message.= “CrawlURL: “.$data_array['crawlurl'].”\n”;
to
$message.= “CrawlDate: “.$results['crawldate'].”\n”;
$message.= “CrawlTime: “.$results['crawltime'].”\n”;
$message.= “CrawlURL: “.$results['crawlurl'].”\n”;
That fixed it!
Just wanted to let you know and your readers in case they have the same problem and want to fix on their own before you release the next version.