I have a MyBB forum and I get multiple page views on new threads within 3-5 minutes of posting. I manually submit new URLs through Google Webmaster Tools which should if anything account for 1 page view, but not multiple. I don't have active members at the moment. Research leads me to believe my 100+ members who never post or respond to Admin emails are actually registration bots. So are these page views on my new content from real people or from web crawlers? 
Do crawlers add page views on a forum?
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