Suggested crawl rate in google webmaster tools?
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hey moz peeps, got a general question:
what is the suggested custom crawl rate in google webmaster tools? or is it better to "Let Google determine my crawl rate (recommended)"
If you guys have any good suggestions on this and site why that would be very helpful, thanks guys!
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Hi David,
According to Google's webmasters help page, it states that the crawl rate option is just about how fast it crawls your site and not how often it does. Check out the link for more information about it.
Also, I wouldn't stress to much on the settings because the search engines are going to do what they do, just make sure to create good content and get it out there, the search engines will see this and depending on how well it is they we come more often on there own.
Hope this helps!
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48620
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thanks for that alan, yea id like to see what other have to say about this as well, im all open ears!
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I believe it is much better to allow the search engines to handle it themselves. Check your logs to see what they are doing, so you know if they are hammering you server. If they are, you can slow them down using the robots.txt file On a large site, google will often such out a few hundred thousand pages per day. Yahoo will do more, but their crawler isn't always friendly or smart. Sometimes different Slurp crawlers will request the same pages. Bing emailed me six months ago and asked that we remove the 2second delay I added. I did that because they were hammering the server, but only sent a few thousand readers per day. Google doesn't usually hammer the server, but when 5 or 6 are hitting you at the same time, it can affect you site response time. - and then some of them want to penalize you for having a poor experience for visitors.
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