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My site got a lot of automated traffic that seems to have been from Snap. What is going on?

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My site got a lot of automated traffic that seems to have been from Snap. What is going on?

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There are two possibilities: • When someone rolls over a Snap Shot-enabled link for the first time, Snap takes a picture of the linked-to Web page so the image can be displayed in the preview bubble. If someone links to many pages at your site, you may notice a temporary increase in automated traffic. However this is generally quite brief because Snap stores the image so it does not generally need to fetch it again. The user-agent for our snapshot-taking bot is “SnapPreviewBot”. • Snap.com, our search engine, uses an indexing bot that may occasionally visit your Web pages. The user-agent for our indexing bot is “SnapBot/1.0”. Both of our bots operate in the IP range of 38.98.19.66 to 38.98.19.126.