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GoogleBot, Cache & SERP related question

by robertkiyosaki
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Hey Warriors,

I have noticed from my Hostgator logs that Googlebot is visiting my site daily however, I noted that my site was last cached on 15th December.

The question I have is that is there any correlation between how often Googlebot visits your site and how regularly Google caches your site?

The other question is relating to SERP. I'm building backlinks constantly yet it's making no difference to my rankings. What should I do apart from wait and carry on?

PS: Keywords & site are below.

Thanks.

Robert
#cache #googlebot #question #related #serp
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    Googlebot starts examining a new site with a high crawl rate. In the beginning, it will visit your site every[other]day and determine the rate at which it is growing.

    The bot then slowly lowers the website's crawl rate. If your website is a blog or a forum, Google will notice this and the crawl rate won't drop. If it's a static site, Googlebot may wait for weeks at a time before crawling it again.

    Now it's important to know that all of Googlebot's visits to your site are not publicly cached. For many static sites, Google seems to average about once every three weeks for recaching (I've seen an obsolete blog take up to seven weeks to get recached).

    One way to force the Googlebot to recache is to generate new content, regularly. Warrior Forums threads, for instance, are indexed and cached in a matter of hours.

    There is a known bug wherein the bot crawls your site too often, to the extent that there are many instances of it at once and it's actually using a sizeable chunk of bandwidth. This is why Google allows you to adjust your site's crawl rate now:
    Changing Google's crawl rate - Webmaster Tools Help
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