Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Learn more about Googlebot’s crawl of your site and more!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Learn more about Googlebot’s crawl of your site and more!

Google has posted some improvements to its webmaster tools. Definitely worth having a look at is the ‘Crawl Rate control’ which determines how quickly the Googlebot consumes your site.

As the post above indicates, Google uses ’sophisticated algorithims that determing how much to crawl your site’. Sophisticated? How about, if you don’t change your content much, Google won’t crawl you much. And if you’re not changing your content much, you will drift down the rankings as your site can’t be very important right?

So, two good tips for today. Set the Crawl rate control to fast (we’ve got loads of bandwidth on the Webreality server farm, go for it!), but then make sure you’re content’s moving faster than a snail.

October 18, 2006 | Filed Under Google 

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