I've been working on a new niche-oriented ecommerce engine for what
seems like forever now. It appears to be slowly approaching that
state sometimes known as "done" which is generally defined by the
process "call it good".
Now, as part of this gizmo, I've added some instrumentation to allow
the webmaster or site-owner to determine this, that, and the other.
For example it will tell you what pages were viewed in what order and
for how long, etc.
One part of the instrumentation is related to tracking robots. Here
is where I would like to ask your opinion.
Currently it has the following:
* Recognize robots in serveral ways, with operator confirmation.
* For each robot, it tracks:
- what ip-addresses the robot has used
- what pages the robot has fetched
- when each page the robot fetched was last fetched
It reports this information in various ways, for example it will tell
you which robots are active (page fetched in last xx minutes), it will
tell you all the pages a given robot has fetched along with date/time
last fetched, and it will report on all your pages telling you which
robots have fetched them.
However, I have the feeling that some important kinds of information
are missing, information I could be capturing if I just thought to
capture it.
So here is my question. For your own purposes in furthering your
website's search-engine optimization, what information would be most
useful?
[And if anyone can tell me why I keep typing "robit" instead of
"robot" that would be greatly appreciated!]
Tia.
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