Googlebot hasn't visited my site for 1 month. Is this normal?

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    My website www.guidetorome.net says in webmasters tools that googlebot last visited my site one month ago. Is this normal? I have lots of backlinks.
     
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  2. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    If it's a newish site, it's not unusual. The frequency picks up if it finds new content every time.
     
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  3. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #3
    This is not normal bot behaviour. It could suggest you have been penalized, or maybe you just need more quality links.
     
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  4. ScottDaMan

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    Yeah, I don't think that is normal either. Make sure you don't have googlebot banned in robots.txt.
     
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  5. deep_3657

    deep_3657 Peon

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    Yes that seems to be a new site to me. It may happen for a new site. According to yahoo you have 200 backlinks majority of which is from forums. So i don't think thats any issue to worry about.

    Just wait and let your site get old a bit and get some relevant backlinks.
     
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  6. Mark07

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    #6
    One month is a long time for a bot to not crawl a particular site and also the backlinks which you have have to be decent backlinks which have some authority in Google.
    There are also settings by which one can set the bots to visit the site after a specific number of days.

    Adding content to the site or even making some changes to the content will surely help and still if you don't see any bots crawling then surely there's got to be some problem with the site.
     
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  7. seo daddy

    seo daddy Active Member

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    You can change bot crawl speed. Slow medium and fast (default is fast)

    but you cannot select when googlebot crawls your site.....

    What the OP should do is create an XML sitemap and submit it to google using the webhmaster tools console and googlebot will come a calling (always has for me anyway)
     
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  8. cybotrix

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    Hi,

    I just checked your website and it's been cached by google on 13th of October. Which means that google bots have been visiting your site. :)
     
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    Same here i was worrying too.
     
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  10. 3333

    3333 Peon

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    That's not what it tells me on google webmasters tools
     
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  11. cybotrix

    cybotrix Peon

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    :)
    If you have a google toolbar then you can easily check if your site is cached or not and if it is on which date. When i did the same it showed me that your site has been cached on 13th of October.. :)

    Cheers,
    Cybotrix :)
     
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  12. cybotrix

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    or i have a better way just put this "cache:http://www[dot]guidetorome[dot]net" in google[dot]com and you will be able to see the page that has been cached by google.. ;)

    Thanks,
    Cybotrix :)
     
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  13. thunderbolt007

    thunderbolt007 Active Member

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    That's not normal.... Google usually crawls frequently on updated sites (pages)..

    If you have updated and still Googlebot don't crawl you are somewhat penalized.. Have you done something naughty? That Google detects it....:p
     
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