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Why does "amazon.com" keep visiting my website? - IamLegend - 06-13-2014 03:05 PM
Why does "amazon.com" keep visiting my website?
I keep seeing their visits over and over, here are the last 3, all from IP 54.241.89.133
Aug 1110:31:09 PM
Aug 1304:06:15 AM
Aug 1409:26:54 PM
I'm assuming it's a webcrawler, and I understand why google would use one, buy why amazon???
- Jake - 06-13-2014 03:15 PM
I really don't have any special information on that and can only guess that they were given your site as an affiliate sales candidate that their system is reviewing for approval.
I looked into it:
aranhabot , amzn_assoc appear to be the names of the Amazon.com robot for checking their affiliate sites
There is a thread discussing the myterious robot traffic from AWS (the amazon cloud web services division).
http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/4368965.htm
A 2009 report of strange goings on:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/3828718.htm
Try a search for: Amazon.com robot Spidering my site.
to see more references, searching Amazon Spider gets lots of nature photos.