Currently my site is being crawled by the Googlebot on a daily basis. Is a daily crawl from the Googlebot a good thing or bad thing?
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Good/Bad will depend on ...
And of course, far more importantly ... is it translating into more visitors and more sales ? |
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It's a good thing. This means that Google will find your new content faster which means it can be included in their index sooner. It's got to be in the index to be found in searches. Keep in mind that this doesn't mean your pages will rank well. It doesn't even necessarily mean your pages will be indexed. But under normal circumstances being visited regularly by Googlebot means your content is being found and indexed relatively quickly. And that's a good thing. |
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Google crawling your site is the first step to being indexed. But, crawling in itself is more of an indicator of what is going on rather then good or bad. IE if Google is crawling your site real hard every day but none of your pages show in Google search it's probably a bad sign and you need to figure out why they are not including your site even though they know about it. On the other hand if your site is new and large and they are crawling a lot of deep pages on your site it's probably a good sign that Google likes what you have to offer and wants it in their index ASAP. Looking at your logs to see crawl patterns will also help you find issues with your site structure in terms of crawling and indexing. So I'd say rather then good or bad think of it as an opportunity. |
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It's a good thing because it means Google is indexing your site so that it can show up in search results. |
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