10 Ways to Increase Your Site Crawl Rate
Filed Under (Search Engine Optimization) by admin on 06-11-2008
Tagged Under : Search Engine Crawl Rate
Can you force Googlebot to visit your website often? No. You only have got the power to invite it only. So how to invite Googlebot and increase your site’s crawl rate.
Following shows you how to achieve so.
1. Make frequent content updation and take it to the notice of Google. Daily updation is great. But, if can not update daily, at least make it a thrice-a-week habit.
2. Check your server and make sure that works. For this you can use Pingdom and Mon.itor.us.
3. Avoid uploading huge images or PDFs, as they will lower the time left for Google to visit your other pages.
4. Avoid duplicate content at all costs.
5. Ensure to get back links from sites that are crawled regularly.
6. Adjust your crawl speed according to Google Webmaster tools.
7. Never forget to add sitemap as it will make your website to be crawled easily.
8. Ensure that your server handles your error pages properly.
9. Create unique title and Meta tags for each of your web pages.
10. Properly monitor Google crawl rate for your site and analyze what works and what not.







