DNS lookup timeout
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Google webmaster tool reports "DNS lookup timeout" for the past few weeks. What may be the causes?
Seeing around 2000 errors.
How to clear this issue?
Thanks.
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I'd definitely check out how much bandwidth you're using with your hosting company and if you need to expand it to compensate for the increase in traffic.
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Yes, both of them started by the first week of this month.
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The increased visits could be slowing down your site. Did the 30% increase happen at the same time as the errors started?
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The increased visits could be slowing down your site. Did the 30% increase happen at the same time as the errors started?
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I don't have see any site speed issue. Because of the holidays, seeing 30% more traffic for the past few weeks.
To my knowledge, we are not blocking the bot.
Thanks.
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This means that when the bot went to crawl your site, your site took too long and the bot gave up. Do you have site speed issues? Or is something passively blocking the bot?
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