Beverly Hills

I've noticed the same thing. When I just looked at my visitors, 40 of the 50 images on the first page are all from Beverly Hills.

I wonder, is there some way FAA can filter the legitimate visits from the bots?

Thanks, Jeff! and are there groupings? Like are there pairs and groups of 3, 4, 5, images in a row, all hit at the same time, for which you can definitely say they would have a keyword in common?

Sure looks like it. Not only that but I'm seeing that the vast majority of recent views on any given image have been from BH.

Hello Beverly Hills! I almost never look at my visitor counter until someone mentions it in the discussion threads. I see 26 pages of visits from BH today! I can see images from the same gallery and then the next one etc.

The thing that bothers me is that I thought visitor count helped, at least in some small way, with our search rankings. Does it matter if those visitors aren't real?

Mine are more closely associated than "same gallery", Jessica.

Right now I have a grouping of three, all from the same church. The first two keywords of each are bell tower,first congregational church; windows,first congregational church; windows, first congregational church. I do not have a "Churches" gallery. I do have a "Doors and Windows" gallery, but the bell tower one is not in there and, indeed, the word 'window' is not even in the keywords for that one. So what these three images have in common is the phrase "first congregational church" as the second keyword in their string and the word "churches" somewhere in their keywords.

They were visited by BH at 6:17, 6:18 and 6:18.

Interestingly, just before the first one, BH also visited another church at 6:17, this one in New Mexico. It's first two keywords are churches,new mexico.

So if that New Mexico church was visited at random, it seems that the bot was next "attracted" to other images associated with it.

I have been spending a LOT of time trying to get my keyword order to be meaningful. I'm only through just over 1/4 of my images, methodically checking them. I'd say about 1/4 of the ones I check are fine as is, about 3/4 of them require revision. This BH thing indicates to me that I may not be just spinning my wheels, and that's why I'm so interested. If the bots follow those thumbnails and the thumbnails are based on keywords and keyword order, a buyer might well be expected to do the same.

I have 12 out of 24 that are Beverly Hills, since 12/7/2018. Only 2 images are closely related and the others are random, some uploaded a few months ago.
On a side note, I was SO excited the first it time it showed up; oh wow a person from Beverly Hills looked at my art, haha, then I started seeing the discussion threads on the bots. :)

I have noticed that Beverly Hills will hit a gallery and go right through it and/or do groupings with some of the same keywords

In the last week I've had almost 10,000 views, mainly from Beverly Hills. I've never had this happen in the four years on FAA. I haven't had any significant sales, however . . .

Thank you, Krissy . . . and others. It's not as if I stake out my visitors tab, but I can't help noticing that, for me at least, something is very different. It's good to know others are seeing some of the same things. Now to figure it out LOL

I've noticed that Beverly Hills visits have gone into overdrive recently as well (last couple of weeks maybe), and "it" definitely seems to be visiting small groups of similar images that have common keywords at the same time.

Sometimes when my family from Europe looks at my images with their cell phones, it registers as Beverly Hills. It doesn't happen all the time, though.

3/50 not BH just now. Say what????

I live in Beverly Hills a lot of the time. As you know I don't, but the router I go through last to get here, is.

If the hits are showing up within seconds of each other, you know it's a bot. When a bot crawls a page, it generally follows the links on the page and crawls them as well, at least to a certain depth. This is why the associated artworks that appear on your page are being crawled at the same time.


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Thank you, Abbie and Susan. Much as I suspected.

Now any speculation as to why the Beverly Hills activity has jumped sky high on my log while some of the other known bots have all but disappeared?

When using a VPN, you can be from just about any city.
BH could have just opened up as a new VPN location, Nikki

I know that you are talking about the Beverly Hills bot running through galleries but also through single images. My image below has 28 visits from the bot over a 34 minute period, often multiple times in the same minute.

Just now on page 1 of my Visitors log: 47 Beverly Hills visits at 9:42; 3 Beverly Hills visits at 9:44

I think no one is interested in my work :(

We all are, Nikki!!! But as I say, Beverly Hills can show when even I visit. It's a router address. Also a search engine is there.

Thanks, Abbie :) That was supposed to be a joke but I really appreciate your love :)

And Beverly appears to have finished doing whatever she was doing with my images, so now the other bots can get in LOL

Actually, I was just curious as
1) I was very interested in the like subject/theme groupings by an apparent bot; and
2) I had never seen quite as many visits from one place over a period of days as I was seeing.

My curiosity has been satisfied, so I'll close this now.