Curious about what seems to be random visits to my Moodle news

Curious about what seems to be random visits to my Moodle news

by Steve Hyndman -
Number of replies: 2

For the past few weeks I have noticed an ip address that consistently "visits" the main news forum on my main Moodle site and it seems to randomly access a news post.

I've been posting news items to this site for about 6 months and I'm glad someone (other than my students) may find the posts interesting smile, but since the logs seem to indicate just random news posts are being accessed (not just new posts, but things that were posted months ago), it has me curious. Below is a screen shot of part of my site log showing some of the activity.

Again, I just noticed this starting to happen a few weeks ago....just courious if anyone can help me understand what is happening here and if I should be concerned. Thanks.

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In reply to Steve Hyndman

Re: Curious about what seems to be random visits to my Moodle news

by John Papaioannou -
I believe it's the Yahoo! search bots crawling your site... no need to be concerned, unless you don't want publicity. wink
In reply to John Papaioannou

Re: Curious about what seems to be random visits to my Moodle news

by Steve Hyndman -

Thanks PJ...didn't think of that....that makes sense now. Publicity is good smile

Steve