Google sitting on my site

[tangotemper]

Is this normal?  They've been there as a guest for several hours now and when I check on what they're doing, the message says "unknown action".  They were previously registering as a guest for nearly half an hour, until the new activity showed up.

As you have probably guessed, I'm a complete newbie to this sort of thing, and I'm not really sure if they're just indexing my site or something else is happening.

Thanks in advance.

[vbgamer45]

You can do an IP lookup to see what they are http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

Normally it is just a search engine spider.

[JoshieDaMan]

I love me some engine spiders! Increase traffics and such. It is totally normal.

[idkdell]

un less its a poorley made bot that is trying to make a ccount and spamm your site taking the cover as google....

[tangotemper]

Thanks for that troops - I was pretty nervous.  The forum IP function gave the address as belonging to Google.  Given that the forum has only been up for 2 days  I was pretty nervous at the fact that this guest didn't register after 30 minutes and then was up to an unknown action.  For some reason, I imagined that spideys would check you out in a matter of seconds then depart, as opposed to sitting on the site for several hours!  Lordy, it only took an hour or so to put the forum together!