Of spiders inside and outside and webcrawlers, oh my!

If you’ve been reading Rural Ramblings for very long, you might have noticed I have a love/hate relationship with spiders.

When the spiders are outside, I often take pictures of their webs, and even of the spiders themselves.

But on the inside I was trying to get one off the ceiling not too long ago when I fell and broke a set of shelves, a full-length mirror and my finger.  Then I bombed the basement when nothing else seemed to work to get rid of the little web crawlers down there.

However, there’s yet another kind of spider on my mind these days. Webcrawling spiders. Those software programs used to index websites, and to help determine ranking on Google.

When I told a friend this was a case where I actually want spiders around, she immediately responded, “So now you LIKE spiders? You WANT spiders??? But you just bombed the spiders!!!!”

Yeah, I know.  And when I read her comment, here’s what popped in MY mind… 

SPIDERS

Spiders in the yard I find,
But on the outside I don’t mind.
Let them hunt and eat the bugs,
Just don’t come in and walk on rugs.

All these spiders have their place
As long as it’s not in my face.
Inside I say, oh no, oh no!
Outside is where you need to go.

One exception to this rule
Are spiders as a searching tool.
Inside my computer I don’t care
If spiders run just everywhere.

Googlebots crawl twice as fast,
Searching pages new and past.
Let them peek at all the code
And make my websites their abode.

Let the spiders check my sites,
Then tell Google they’re all right.
Spider over every page,
Tell Google that they’re all the rage!

Rank my sites the very best,
And leave behind all the rest!

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