The Bot Project is all about the webmaster community working together to build a picture of what search engine bots are doing, when they're doing it and where they're from.

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False dawn

Ok, so I didn't actually talk to anyone about the project early April but I am doing today.

Where did April go?

This heading is a bit big

Yes, this heading is a bit big but also today, 9th April, I'm going to email a few associates and more niche forums about The Bot Project so it'll be interesting to see what happens over the next few days.

If you're reading this then hello :)

Tracking is working.... let the data collection begin

Matt has cracked the PHP tracker and we've got it live on a few sites now so we're logging bot activity on this site and two others.

He's working on the reporting and hopefully next week we'll be able to take sign-ups. Initially we'll just circulate it to a few friends, let them tell us where we've left scaffolding up, etc and then hopefully let nature take its course and we'll steadily grow the site and the community.

First blog post

Well, here's the first blog post.

The site is built (although it's a little rough in places) and we're just about to use the code in some of our own sites to get the ball rolling.

We hope to have the tracking code in about 20 sites by the end of this week and we'll test it for a few weeks afterwards before we start talking to others about the project.

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