I want to know when google is crawling the site, preferably by sending myself an email.
Is there any way to do this that won’t adversely effect performance?
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I want to know when google is crawling the site, preferably by sending myself an email.
Is there any way to do this that won’t adversely effect performance?
The user agent identifies itself as gsa-crawler/Googlebot depending if a Google appliance or Google. You could write some code (
Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) that watches for that or analyses IIS log files.You might want to verify that the bot really is Google- that is something to watch out for.
I’d choose the Web app root if you need an email to sent out ASAP and the file analyse root if you can wait a little longer.