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[Skyon Archer]

What are the domains for those two sites?

Most likely the main domain for the first one has been online longer than the second one. It has a better ranking with search engine results.

Just like InvisionFree forums were always being visited by bots, but when ZetaBoards hit the scene, it was rare for bots to visit it. However, when InvisionFree was absorbed by ZetaBoards, it flipped eventually.

Also, if you have a bot that's visiting your site over and over and over . . . that's not necessarily a good thing. You need to look at the IP addresses of all those guests. If a Chinese search engine is hitting you repeatedly, what good is that for you? Do you think suddenly you'll gain members from appearing in their search results? Highly unlikely.

Analytics of your statistics is what you need. You need to find out who they are and where they are from.