They crawl everything, they crawl all my pdf ebooks, they look at a few pages in 'Webmasters Corner', they even look at my 'Bonus Reports', and even descend staircase into my 'Secret Vault'!

When will they go home and stop prying into my little secrets?

I know I encourage them like leaving cheese for a mouse, by putting more pdf files, software and ebooks on my site every day, so I suppose poor bots can't ever keep up!

I found out that like mice like cheese, that 'Googlebot' likes my pdf files, he has been fitted with digital spectacles so he is now able to actually read keyword rich pdf files all way through to end! So he likes pdf files.

So I have obliged him!

I put 85 pdf files up on my server one night just to keep him happily reading! I have put many more up on server since, and will continue to create more pdf files of classic authors for free download, just to keep him calling with his 'friends'.

Isn't this a laugh?

It's like taking in a stray dog, feeding him, housing him, and dog losing ability to wander off again and finding you have got a lodger for life.

My site's ranking has risen considerably both in Yahoo and Google, but for some reason that escapes me for time being, my ranking rose more quickly in Yahoo and they rank it much higher than Google. I may well find reason for this before long and put it in another article.

So if you are a web site owner struggling to get noticed by web bots, don't put it off much longer, put up an rss feed with articles about your products or service and not only will 'Googlebot' call with his 'friends', but actual live people will call too.

Much like at moment there are any number of 'opt-in' mailing list builders schemes going rounds on internet, you could always start your own similar scheme, but with article swapping being currency of day.

Search engine's will find more link-backs to your site with 'relevant' content, 'click-thru' rate will increase as people stop by a web site with your article on, leading inevitably to higher search engine ranking, and much more traffic to your site.

I am just about to implement this idea for my own site and exchange articles with like-minded sites. This idea could soon take off and grow to really large proportions that any web site owner is going to be very busy indeed dealing with all requests, but it is a necessary requirement that as a web site owner you find time to do this, otherwise fast travelling engine you are on is going to stop.

It may occasionally and at determined intervals, be necessary to change articles for something new, this could be a requirement of scheme that one new article is submitted each and every month and changed for old one, this would eliminate 'staleness' not only to online shoppers but also to search engine's.

It's been my experience that once a web site has been put up, site owners think there is nothing more to do, they don't realise that 'staleness' to search engine's leads to lower and yet lower rankings, therefore it is imperative to change content on a web site frequently.