Where's Googlebot?!

Hi Guys,

Something really strange happened to me recently. The Googlebot usually visits my site several times a day, because content is extremely dynamic. Now I noticed that it hasn't been crawling my site for 3 days!!

So I go to Google Webmaster Tools and it tells me that it faced many URL Timed Out Errors (DNS Lookup Timed Out), starting November 1 and ending just one day before it stopped visiting my site.

In the main pages it says We can't currently access your home page because of a timeout.

It still searches the subdomains though. If you guys have any idea on why this may be happening, I'll really appreciate it

Thanks

 

can you check log files and see if your server was down during that timeframe?

 

nope, it's (and was) up and running . I check it daily. Should I be worried that Google thinks my site is down? Could that be the reason it hasn't crawled my site for three days now (with the exception of the subdomains)?

 

Go to DNSreport and see if there's a problem.

 

The only "Fail" in the DNSreport is the following "Open DNS Server":

Then there are three or four "Warning" (problems that are usually (apparently) not worth fixing)

 

what your url? can you write it here please?

 

Yea google bot hasn't visited my site in a few days either

 

OK, it's back on the site again . Strange.

 

Yea mine too

 

Just want to add that if your sites contents doesn't change more often, googlebots visits get decreased. Afterall, there is no point of spidering a site that has fixed contents.

 

Its not been back for 3-4 days?? My site is updated daily and I have links on several pr5+ sites.

 

Does anyone know what that error message really means? I see the same message for several sites that I've checked, including DigitalPoint.com

 

I've noticed this on my site, there seems a definite correlation to how often the bot comes and how often you put up new pages. But it always comes back eventually!

 

You didn't get the memo? It's taking a few weeks off! It's been working for 7 years non stop!

 

Sounds like your hosts may of been doing some work on the server and 'opened' it or something and Google queried your server, was afraid it might over-query it and gave up!?

I'm not too hot with servers but I think it's something like that.

 

Not sure what you mean.

 

nore do I as I don't know a lot on servers lol

Pretty much what I mean is that your hosts have/were doing something that possibly caused Googlebot to error which is why it timed out?

 

Anyone know if my host could have dome something that would prevent or cause the google bot to time out?

 

Why the hell was this moved to review this is a question related to google?