More than a week ago Google recommended that I increase the crawl rate for the bot to 'Faster', which I did. But since doing that, Google webmaster stats show that the bot has still yet to visit my site. Is this normal? Or is the Bot on holiday?
The rate Google bots visit your site also depends on your content freshness and page importance. If you did not change your content since the last visit, you would not find the bots visiting often
Fair point. To be honest, any tweaks I have made in the last week have been minor. I have a day off work today and have already planned to do some major work on a few pages. We'll see if the little Bot comes for a look after that.
You should avoid giving the time frame when bot should return because you are not inviting it after that time span but restricting for that much time.