Question about Members Online

[brandiwest]

I was just playing around with all the little buttons, etc and I clicked on the tab that said members online; so I went and looked and there were a bunch of: Yahoo! Slurp Spider and Google Spider browsing. What are these???

[HollyS]

Yahoo and Google and MSN all send out spiders to scan our pages to help aid searches on their sites. It's a good thing they are visiting us because it helps moves us up on the list of what is shown when different searches are done on their sites.

[brandiwest]

Interesting!! Hooray for GDS then!!

I thought maybe these were what were slowing the site down so much. I can't hardly do anything on here today and I have never had that problem before.