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10 Ways to Increase
Your Site Crawl Rate
Ann Smarty
June 24, 2008
Regular and frequent
visits by the crawler is the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus
the most efficient way to get frequent and deep crawls is to develop a website
that search engines see as important and valuable.
Note that you can’t
force Googlebot to visit you more often - what you can do is to invite it to
come. Possible measures to take to increase the crawl rate may include:
- Update your
content often and regularly (and ping Google once you do) - well, an obvious
one, so not much to describe here; in a word, try to add new unique content
as often as you can afford and do it regularly (3 times a week can be the
best solution if you can’t update your site daily and are looking for the
optimal update rate).
- Make sure your
server works correctly: mind the uptime and Google
Webmaster tools reports of the unreached pages. Two tools I can recommend
here are Pingdom and
Mon.itor.us.
- Mind your page
load time: note that the crawl works on a budget - if it spends too much time
crawling your huge images or PDFs, there will be no time left to visit your
other pages.
Great Tips! Read
the whole article here!
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