Just wondered if any of you have noticed an unusual high googlebot activity the last couple of days?? I've registered 35,000+ pages crawled, in 25+ visits the last couple of days.. And googlebot has also been gone (almost..) the last 14 days until it started again now. The number of indexed pages have alse been changing a lot (22k to 25.5k) everytime I've checked google as well. Traffic have also gone up 10-20% (probably because of the extra indexed pages).. Anyone else seen this? A Link/PR update on it's way maybe??
All normal here... it's probably just Google catching up since you mentioned you had not been visited in so long. As far an update coming up, it's possible, but it wouldn't have anything to do with being spidered. I'm not sure where so many people got the notion that Google only indexes right before an update. That would be terribly inefficient of Google to have all their spiders sit idle all the time except right before an update.
It's really been catching up... Checked my log files for the last couple of days now, and the exact number of pages was 41,000... (didn't know I had that many pages....) But I've also noticed that googlebot has been quite active on several other of my sites as well the last 2-3 days. (much more active than normal) Couldn't care less if it's an update on it's way or not, as long as I rank good in the SERPS.. Just had to add that here because I've noticed there's always a LOT of talk about an update or not everytime googlebot does something "strange".. But the number of indexed pages is quite strange. Never the same number when I check, I've seen from 22.5k to 25.6k today (23.7k right now)... This should be good news for the ad network as well.. (and maybe an increase in base points for me?? )