Hold The Phone For a Minute...

[cms07]

It's been like that with domains forever...

[Myles Grey]

i disagree, if i get 500 unique visits from google, who just look at the page then go, it is 500 pageloads aswell

The bounce rate is rarely even close to that high (%100). If you just got it one day for some strange reason and than it went back to normal, your website wouldn't get kicked out.

[D3xt3r]

I get about 300 unique IP's per day. 50% of them being real humans.. And I make enough of small ad's to buy 3 different paid hosting accounts...

I mainly stay here, because I like the community, and helping people out.. And so far, I haven't needed more features than all that I have.

The 500 unique IP's is hard to hit. Believe me, I have no shortage of traffic, and still haven't recorded that many yet. But of course I have a very low bounce rate, around 20% and most are bots on my IPs..

A tip, if you get close to 500, just deny most bots with Robots.txt, that should give you a few hundred leeway..

[The Melancholy Of 110mb.com]

about the robot.txt file it is just a empty file correct? and as for paying ill spend some money when i get a chance (when i have the money) but only if they accept paypal... Ill get my paypal account working soon...

[D3xt3r]

You can view my robots.txt file for an example...

http://d3xt3r.net/robots.txt

I suggest not going to files that are hidden. My security system may ban you.

But, you can learn more about robots.txt at http://robotstxt.org

Here is a example file that would ban all bots.. (That listened, anyhow.)

Code:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

Or to only allow Google...

Code:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

User-Agent: googlebot (I think this is the useragent, might wanna check on googles site)
Allow: /

Avoid using * within actual paths. Cause some don't abide by it. I found that out the hard way...

[Slittzle]

not all bots use that of course, the bad bots (like scrapers, email harvestors, etc) are the ones that will ignore that and can run up your bandwidth and I guess page hits too. But of course those aren't the kind that really hit you every day.