I have seen google's crawling rate is very down now days for some of my sites and even I am already doing promotional activities as earlier....even one of my updated page has not been crawled for last one month.......is this happening with me or with anyone else to....

there is a possible reason that Google has banned your site that's why it's not being crawled by bots.

crawl rate changes for all kinds of reasons, the usual being, your site and it's inbound links simply aren't "important" enough to the google algo.

the question is though, why do you think your site needs to be crawled more often?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

crawl rate changes for all kinds of reasons, the usual being, your site and it's inbound links simply aren't "important" enough to the google algo.

the question is though, why do you think your site needs to be crawled more often?

Well, you say that usually this is because the inbound links are no important enough (or they've become less important, ), how is that for a reason why someone is interested in dropping Google's crawling rate?

Huh??


Ooh I dunno, maybe it's because it's the links that set the crawl rate!

but then of course you already know this

Originally Posted by djura

If you are selling links for "PR chasers", it is.


True...bigger the PR = more inbound links = more ways the spiders get to your site....crawling rate can be very important to index fresh content quickly

Apparently!!

I think a lot of the crawling rates can seem random, or seem to be slow, or fast, depending upon a limitless number of variables. I don't think there could be any definite answer to your question, other than the advice chrishirst gave you being the most likely explanation.

Hi,

No this is not true that Google crawl rate is down, my site crawl rate is normal as usual, and also my page get cached in twice a week.

The Google crawlers seem to have minds of their own and no one can dictate where they go. But if those crawlers ignored my websites, I think I'll worry, too