Archive for October, 2010
Google Crawl Rate – Wow!
by Cheater on Oct.16, 2010, under google, internet
Well usually Google’s maximum crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools is limited to 0.5 requests/second as the fastest rate possible with the slider.
The growth of PropertyNow however has caused that speed to increase – first to 0.8 requests/second then to 1.5 requests/second then even faster still to 2.5 requests/second.
That is the fastest I’ve ever heard of. There has been a increase in quality content, and also the server can handle the speed, so naturally Google wants to crawl it all as soon as possible and refresh it as often as possible. The logs show that they do actually push that limit but in bursts rather than constantly.
This change has also coincided with alterations of the search results. All keywords dropped temporarily during the speedy crawl period.
Very interesting stuff indeed.
PropertyNow and Google Crawl Stats
by Cheater on Oct.08, 2010, under google, internet, realsauce, website
PropertyNow Real Estate has just recently opened its doors to agents and its done so in a big way. A very large number of agents have already signed up and more are coming.
So much so, Google has taken a interest. Googlebot has been frantically crawling the past couple of days, and the Crawl Rate settings have changed as well. Usually you cant ask Googlebot to go any faster than 0.5 requests/s but it is now letting me select up to 1.25 requests/sec or 0.8 seconds between requests! I’ve never seen that behaviour before.
We’ll have to see if that is reflected by a improvement in the search results. Fingers crossed.
