Googlebot take 5 times longer to crawl each page
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Hello All
From about mid September my GWMT has show that the average time to crawl a page on my site has shot up from an average of 130ms to an average of 700ms and peaks at 4000ms.
I have checked my server error logs and found nothing there, I have checked with the hosting comapny and there are no issues with the server or other sites on the same server.
Two weeks after this my ranking fell by about 950 places for most of my keywords etc.I am really just trying to eliminate this as a possible cause, of these ranking drops. Or was it the Pand/ EMD algo that has done it.
Many Thanks
Si
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Thank you for having a look
I made no strcutural changes around the time of the issues starting.
On the third graph in GWMT yes there is was a spike on the time spent downloading at it is still a lot higher than previously. I have add an image of it below.
There were two google update about two weeks later the latest Panda and the new EMD.
Most of the content has been written by myself from my own experience etc. There are some pages that I am in the process of removing / changing that are the same as other sites.
Until 4 months ago the layout was in fixed size nested tables etc, I am just about getting my head around CSS etc., to try and drag it in the 21st century.
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Hi.
Based on the site size (number of pages) and format (code, elements and structure) and two speed test I just run on it and a trace-route (from Austria) looks like you don't have any issues with it from a technical point of view.
One thing you need to check is still possibile is the time spent downloding a page graph (the third one) from within GWMT. Did this spiked up in the same time when crawl pages went down ?
A few other questions you should consider:
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did you do any changes - especially structure changes around the same time you've notice the issues ?
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are there any public google updates in the same timeframe with those changes that you've notice ?( you can check them here: http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change )
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is your content duplicate ? (with external sources I mean - not internally)
Please don't get me wrong - i would be ok with the format of the site if it will be very old - before 2000. But the domain is from 2008 - you should get on track with new trends as far as layout, content format and web site format in general.
Hope it helps.
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Hi
I am as sure as I can be but not being a full expert on these things I may have missed something technical.
I have be making changes to the site since mainly on the css layout.
The site is www.growingyourownveg.com
Thanks
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Hi,
As far as I know a low crawl rate won't end up with bad rankings but bad rankings will end up with a lower crawl rate.
If you are sure and I mean really sure you don't have any technical issues on your side that will influence the crawl rate and possibile also rankings then you should take in consideration that maybe you do actually have a -950 filter that is causing your rankings to drop, google dosen't consider your site an authority and for thsi reason it won't crawl your site often or as often as it used to do it.
Can you share the url of the site ? Just to have a look and see if at a first glance there are any obvios reason for google to dislike your site.
Cheers !
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