Get notified when Googlebot visits the page

[faglork]

Hi all,

sometimes you just need to know when Googlebot (or any other bot) visits your pages.
In most cases you are interested in a special page - e.g. you might want to know whether the Goog visits your News Overviev regularly or not at all. Wouldn't it be a great idea if the page would simply send you an email when Googlebot visited?

It just takes a simple UDT:

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$ua = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
if(eregi("Googlebot",$ua)) 
  { 
   $server = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"];
   $filepath = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
   $url = "http://".$server.$filepath;
   $today = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
   $subject = "Googlebot detected on $server";
   $msg = "$today - Google crawled $url";
   $to = "me@here.com";

   mail("$to", "$subject", "$msg"); 
 } 

• - name the UDT as you like, e.g. "botcheck"
• - substitute "Googlebot" with the name (i.e. the string that identifies the bot) of the bot you want to monitor
• - change $to, $msg and $subject to suit
• - put {botcheck} on the page you want to monitor

There you go ...

If you want to monitor many pages, put it into the template(s) or into the footer.

Have fun!
Alex