<b>Catching crawl anomalies: spike detection on bot traffic</b>
A sudden 5x in Googlebot hits is either great news or a crawl trap. Sources to tell which.
→ <b>Google's crawl-spike guidance</b> — official note that spikes often mean a discovered URL explosion (infinite faceted nav, calendar pages). Read before panicking.
★ <b>Pick of the week — Mike King (iPullRank) on crawl traps in logs</b> — shows how to grep for parameter patterns that balloon Googlebot's URL count, then quantify the wasted budget. The clearest "find the trap" methodology I've seen.
→ <b>Anomaly-detection basics from Etsy's Skyline</b> — old but gold on flagging statistical spikes in time-series log counts.
→ <b>OnCrawl crawl-trap detection notes</b> — segment-level views that surface the runaway template.
Takeaway: a Googlebot spike on parameterized URLs = crawl trap, not love. Grep the query strings, count, and block in robots if it's junk.
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