crawl rate dropped dramatically

Discussion in 'Google' started by frodosringfinger, Jul 17, 2007.

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    Over the last few months, Google Bot has been hitting my site at least 150,000 times a month according to my cpanel stats. But this month, its only at about 10,000 so far. What could cause this?

    My site is geek4ums.com
     
    frodosringfinger, Jul 17, 2007 IP
  2. Tearabite

    Tearabite Prominent Member

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    hhmm.. i'm seeing the opposite..
    don't know what it means either way..
     
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  3. frodosringfinger

    frodosringfinger Well-Known Member

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    I dont understand. How are you seeing the opposite? Last month Google Bot hit my site over 150,000 times, this month only around 10,000 times so far.
     
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    Frod,

    Google automatically switches crawl rate every 3 months. If you were on "Faster", you are now reset to "Normal".

    It happened to me as well. However it was clearly mentioned in the last update in webmaster tool that your crawl rate will be set to normal on July 15 2007.

    Terabite, i was telling you the same thing/Hint that 15th july date was already provided by google to tell us the backlinks update will be done on this.

    I wonder how many ppl caught it. No wonder my prediction was on target :)
     
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    i agree...my crawl rate has dropped dramatically...not sure what happened...it still crawls but not that much.
     
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    jimb check your webmaster tool for more info under Crawl rate. It would be set to normal now
     
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    frodosringfinger Well-Known Member

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    Will I ever be able to switch it to Faster?
     
    frodosringfinger, Jul 18, 2007 IP
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    after 3 months it could be enabled but not sure :d
     
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    my crawl rate also slowed but I figured it was because I was using a sitemap and submiting that every few days.
     
    Audiomad, Jul 18, 2007 IP