Crawl rate
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Hello,
In google WMT my site has the following message.
<form class="form" action="/webmasters/tools/settings-ac?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.prom-hairstyles.org/&siteUrl=http://www.prom-hairstyles.org/&hl=en" method="POST">Your site has been assigned special crawl rate settings. You will not be able to change the crawl rate.Why would this be?A bit of backgound - this site was hammered by Penguin or maybe panda but seems to be dragging itself back up (maybe) but has dropped from several thousand visitors/day to 100 or so.Cheers,Ian</form>
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OK thanks.
Ian
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There is nothing negative about the message. It is common and expected for sites which use CDNs.
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Thanks for replying, I have been using a CDN (up until a week ago) and no there haven't been any issues that I can put down to this, I just hadn't seen a message like that before and wondered if it was significant.
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What is your hosting setup? Are you using some form of cloud hosting such as Amazon or have a CDN set up?
Generally speaking, that message from Google is a good thing. It means they have optimized your crawl rate based on your setup. If you feel there is a need to adjust the rate, it can be done. Are you experiencing any issue?
The Panda/Penguin issue would have no relation to your crawl rate settings.
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