Are these real users or bots?
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Are the guests real users, bots, or a combination?
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Both, many search engines save time by crawling with multiple spiders at the same time, and depending on how long until "guests" timeout, it may create the illusion of even more guests than there really are.
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Yup, definitely a mix. But if you think about the standard numbers, we would expect a minimum of like 100 active anonymous users for every 10 people currently posting. As we have about ten right now, having 100 active anonymous non-bot users right now would be the norm.
Believe it or not, we have decent SEO and the search engines send people here for posts all of the time. Only a small fraction of people visiting will every become members with accounts, that's just how these things work. So the guest number isn't really unexpected.
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@scottalanmiller said in Are these real users or bots?:
Believe it or not, we have decent SEO and the search engines send people here for posts all of the time. Only a small fraction of people visiting will every become members with accounts, that's just how these things work. So the guest number isn't really unexpected.
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