Is there any benefit to change the google crawl rate?

[vjboc]

Is there any benefit to change the google crawl rate? Has anyone had any positive or negative experience in doing so?

[M Thompson]

Originally Posted by vjboc

Is there any benefit to change the google crawl rate? Has anyone had any positive or negative experience in doing so?

How often do you post content?

if you post daily then get your site crawled daily, if it's weekly then have it crawled weekly.. Ideally you want new content whenever google vistits... but then again google probably doesn't pay that much attention to what you specify as your crawl rate!

[vjboc]

Originally Posted by M Thompson

How often do you post content?

if you post daily then get your site crawled daily, if it's weekly then have it crawled weekly.. Ideally you want new content whenever google vistits... but then again google probably doesn't pay that much attention to what you specify as your crawl rate!

Thanks M Thompson, I think you are referring to a sitemap.xml .

Webmaster, settings has custom crawl rate setting and was wondering if anyone has used this? If you did, Did you have positive or negative experience using it?

[pmp123]

Originally Posted by vjboc

Thanks M Thompson, I think you are referring to a sitemap.xml .

Webmaster, settings has custom crawl rate setting and was wondering if anyone has used this? If you did, Did you have positive or negative experience using it?

I am also interested to know about it, I see my site crawled very slow these days... how can I make google crawl site fast from webmaster tools?

[samual james]

Crawling rate is basically depends on how often you update content on website, if you update content according to your crawling rate then there is not an issue but if you are not updating your content accordingly then Google can decrease your crawling rate.