SEOMeter graphs your Google crawl rate

January 27, 2008 by · 7 Comments
Filed under: Reviews 

SEOMeter is a new analytics tool that tracks how often Google is crawling your website, and they win my gratitude as being the first to order a paid review. SEOMeter displays graphs of your blog/site and the related crawl cycles (CC), which are how often Google visits your blog for new content. If you have a crawl cycle of 1.0, then Google visits your blog once per day. With this in mind, the lower your CC the more trusted Google finds your blog. If that introduction was over your head, you can check out their FAQ page which might explain it better than I can.

Faster Google Crawl Rate

January 22, 2008 by · 24 Comments
Filed under: General 

Let me start off saying that if you do not use Google Webmaster Tools, you should start trying it out. It is a great tool that shows you near-instant updates of backlinks to your posts, how often Google views your blog, as well as any errors that the Google bot finds.

Utilizing the tools will help you keep your blog search engine friendly and clean. Now for the point of this article, Google normally has a “normal” and a “slower” option for how often it will crawl your page. If you write at least a few times a week you should keep this at “normal,” but if you have a slow webhost or another reason that you do not want Google visiting a lot you can set it to slow.