How many bots/spiders are considered normal?

[Canal World]

Might be a slightly open ended question, but we seem to have a higher bot/member+guest ratio than other sites I see and I wonder if thats a nature of the way they are they up, or if we have an issue with too many bots? Obviously good SEO is key to new members and to people finding the site, but it is also all server load. We banned bing for a while, although have now un-banned it.

Current stats are :

1343 users are online (in the past 15 minutes)

67 members, 1271 guests, 5 anonymous users 

Of which maybe 50% of the guests are bots.

 

Site:

http://www.canalworld.net/forums/

 

 

Daniel

[MADMAN32395]

able to check where the bots are comming from? ;; possible check with Google Analytics 

[Canal World]

Appears to be;  mainly Google and  Bing, some Yahoo.

See: http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?app=members&module=online&sort_order=desc

 

Thanks