I honestly have no idea how the tool grabbed Googlebot data from external sites, but I did hypothesis a few different reasons why it could be happening in this blog post here.
Visit Time: Oct 18th, 2025 2:57 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 192.178.6.32
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-192-178-6-32.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.7339.207 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Oct 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.73.197
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-73-197.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.7339.207 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Oct 18th, 2025 12:03 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.64.130
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-64-130.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.7339.207 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Oct 15th, 2025 1:09 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.167
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-167.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Oct 12th, 2025 12:32 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.66.39
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-66-39.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Oct 6th, 2025 2:41 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.64.107
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-64-107.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.7339.207 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Oct 4th, 2025 2:44 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.73.101
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-73-101.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Sep 25th, 2025 2:49 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.73.9
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-73-9.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.7258.127 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Sep 25th, 2025 2:49 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.73.10
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-73-10.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.7258.127 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Sep 24th, 2025 10:18 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.72.33
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-72-33.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Sep 24th, 2025 10:18 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.72.32
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-72-32.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.7258.127 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Sep 21st, 2025 2:04 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.73.236
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-73-236.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Sep 21st, 2025 2:04 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.73.236
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-73-236.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.7258.127 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Sep 19th, 2025 4:39 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.79.165
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-79-165.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.7339.185 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Sep 19th, 2025 4:39 PM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.79.165
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-79-165.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.7339.185 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404