Why Did My Google Crawls Hit A Wall?
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Hello,
One my the sites I work with, http://www.oransi.com, has seen a significant decrease in crawl Googlebot activity in the last 90 days. See screenshot.
This decrease in crawl stats runs in conjunction with less Kb downloaded per day & an increase in how much time it took Google to download a page.
The client did just go through a redesign, however that happened on 4/16/15, which was after the decrease in Googlebot activity, so that should not be the issue. Same could be said for the mobilegeddan algorithm change.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi BrandLabs,
Thanks for your question! You've had several community members respond, and they've asked some important questions. Did you see them? Please update, thanks!
Christy
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Did they recently try and do some 301 redirects to point all non-www pages to the www version? It looks like the redirects may have been setup wrong and they're going to 404 pages instead of redirecting. There are a handful of other broken links on the site as well that could be contributing to the decline in Googlebot crawling. That's where I would start.
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Well it's clear that something has happened.
Was any work carried out prior to to drop? Are you seeing any increase in 404's or problems in Google Search Console (Webmaster Tools after the daft re-brand)?
-Andy
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Has there been any changes to website traffic or more specifically organic traffic over this same period?
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