Reverse engineering the SE spiders

[crystalball]

Something unsual happen to me the other day, which might turn into something useful for everybody here. I was number one on Yahoo for my keywords for a long time then all of the sudden I was gone :eek: and I mean gone entirely. Well I waited for a few weeks, reviewed my site for problems (found some oops!) then got worried I might be blacklisted altogether (I think my competition reported me). Anyway to the point of all this. I checked my IP address with a few DNSBL tools and did not see any problems :D Well within an two hours of using those tools my log files show visits from MSN, Google, Yahoo, Alexa, Alta-Vista and some smaller SE spiders. Now this seems very strange that they all came at the same time and in such a small time frame. Do you think they monitor these IP searches. And could this be used to get our updates reviewed faster???
By the way now I'm back on top with Yahoo and I'm even on top of some SE's where I wasn't even listed before. :D

[Bela Flor]

That is great that you got back in. What tools exactly were you using so we can test it out to see if works for other sites

[craig34]

Defintely let us know of the tools that you used. We might actually be able to help verify if this was what got you re-listed or not.

[seo_sensey]

hurry up crystalball ... post a new reply and tell us what tools did you use so we can try it as well and we may get some benefits from your discovery ... of course you'll get big thanks from everyone who will find it useful ;)