Crawl rate? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani Is it no longer possible to change the crawl rate for a site in Google Webmaster Tools? Can't find the option anymore. Re: Crawl rate? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by LastMitch >Is it no longer possible to change the crawl rate for a site in Google Webmaster Tools? Can't find the option anymore. I think it's still there: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/48620?hl=en Crawl rate changes Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani …. Since then, we turned off our AMP pages and our crawl rate, which had been rather consistent for the past many months… steadily climbing. Can we draw any conclusions? Is a climbing crawl rate a positive signal that googlebot sees a lot to EAT… Re: Crawl rate? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by ellena980 In webmaster tool you will able to find just check that and slide the slider to conrol the rate. Re: Crawl rate? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani Oh there it is! I couldn't find it before for some reason. Thanks! :) Re: How do i increase conversion rate to my eCommerce site? Digital Media Digital Marketing by manuel.cheta … tags, writing unique product descriptions and fixing any 404 errors/crawl errors are great starting points. Here's some great SEO… Re: Terms of SEO Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by shennon crawl rate is the frequency of a site is being indexed by search engines. PPC is also known as a CPC which is cost per clicks which advertisers only pay if some one clicks on the ads. Re: Average response time jump Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani So I got to the bottom of it. I had accidentally adjusted the crawl rate in Google legacy site settings. Crawl rate is climbing back up now and average response time is making its way back down. Re: Servers sending false 404s all day Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by mmcdonald Are you not able to get this sort of information from webmaster tools? perhaps request an increase to your crawl rate for a few days? Re: Servers sending false 404s all day Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani GWT is always a few days behind, so it hasn't showed up there yet. The problem with crawl rate is that, like it or not, Googlebot received mixed signals from the site, so now they are less likely to "trust" that site moving forward, me thinks. Re: Average response time jump Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani I also want to point out that, with the huge decrease in crawl rate, the number of sitemap pages that were flagged as Discovered - currently not indexed was creeping up as well. It's finally working on decreasing again. Re: Main Page Description Change, how often does Google update its search engine. 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Community Center Geeks' Lounge by Dani …, but nothing is perfect. That’s why they have the Crawl Rate tools and crawl delay directive in sitemap.xml files. Re: How Often Should I Resubmit My Optimized Site Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani Since submitting a sitemap, I've noticed that my crawl rate has significantly increased and the amount of traffic google sends me has decreased / remained consistant. It could be other things I've changed at around the same time though :-/ Re: Google crawler frequency. Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by stymiee … correct META tags present?[/QUOTE] Meta tags won't affect crawl rate. The most you can do is stop a page from… Re: Top Ten Organic SEO Myths Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by mackone Myth 3: Frequent updates to your pages may increase the search engine crawl rate, but it won’t may not increase your rankings. Re: Top Ten Organic SEO Myths Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by Dani [QUOTE=mackone;713801]Myth 3: Frequent updates to your pages may increase the search engine crawl rate, but it won’t may not increase your rankings.[/QUOTE] Yeap, that's what I said :) Re: How to bring Google Fast to visit my site? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by jamesjohn09 there are few ways which can improve the crawl rate of the website - Social networking - Adding fresh content frequently - Generating strong backlinks Re: penalized by google? what to do? Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by diybear You might also want to check your crawl rate on the webmaster tools if its dropping start adding some … Re: Quick indexing in Google in 2 days Digital Media Digital Marketing Search Engine Strategies by newviewit.com Also helps to register for Google webmaster tools. Submit sitemap and set crawl rate. 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