Does it matter? Yes.
Google crawls millions of websites roughly once a month in what is known as the “Deep Crawl”. Deep Crawling enables Google to update its index and the search result it gives back to its users. If, however, Google relies entirely on the deep crawl, its index would quickly become outdated in the rapidly changing web. To stay updated, Google launches various supplemental fresh crawls that skim the web more shallowly and frequently than the deep crawl. These supplementary crawls freshens the index by updating the content of some sites.
Getting fresh crawls from Google, therefore, improves your website’s traffic from Google. Moreover, websites frequently crawled are much more credible and trusted by search engines. The higher the frequency search engines crawl your website, the more trusted it is. Also, a website frequently crawled by search engines has a better ranking in the Search Engine Result Page. The problem is, we can’t see Google robots crawling our websites. How do we know the frequency of Google crawling our websites?
SEOmeter.com
If you are curious about the frequency of Google robots crawling your website, SEOmeter.com can provide you the answer.
SEOmeter.com offers a convenient online tool that allows webmasters to monitor search engine’s crawling activities on their website. SEOmeter.com provides a record of search engine’s cache update events and a user-friendly graph that displays the history of cache updates. All you need to do is add your website to their database for FREE! Here’s an example of a graph that displays the Google Crawl Cycle (CC) of BlogCatalog. Crawl Cycle is the time between two consecutive crawls (i.e., cache updates) done by search engine robots.
The graph shows that BlogCatalog is crawled by Google at an average of 0.6 day. This simply means that that it takes roughly 0.6 day for Google bot to crawl back BlogCatalog after the latest crawling. A more detailed statistics can be found just below the crawling cycle graph. Here’s how it looks like.
SEOmeter.com also gives you the option to easly track your website’s Crawl Cycle through a widget that you can copy and paste on your website. The widget comes in different sizes (80X15, 120X60, 120X90 and 125X125) to fit your space. Here’s a screen shot of SEOmeter stat buttons available.
For more information, refer to SEOmeter’s FAQs or read SEOmeter’s Blog. I personally recommend you to try SEOmeter.com. Their service is free so you’ve got nothing to lose. Would it not be great to know how often Google crawls your website and about what time Google crawls it? I just submitted Blogging Mix to SEOmeter’s database and I’m excited to know the results.
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Thank you My Friend !
I just submitted my blog too. Will be great to watch the results !
All the Best My Friend !!!******
Rocky
This is great.I have just submitted my site there as well.
Is the entire site crawled by Google during each crawl cycle? I’m not sure of that…
@ Anuj,
That depends on which kind of crawl Google does on your site. The CC or Crawl Cycle is the time between two consecutive crawls. Google does Deep Crawls (crawls your entire page) once a month but to stay updated, Google sends its robot to crawl websites for updates. These are called fresh crawls (Google robot crawls the shallowly).
Is there any way to “force” google to crawl your blog or site? Mine has been active for a couple months yet…none of my links are showing up and I am still not indexed for any of my keywords.
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@Reverse Cell Phone,
You can do that by linking to your website from a regularly crawled websites. You can comment on blogs that implements a dofollow on their comment or you can participate in forums.
You can also submit your blog’s sitemap to http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Good luck.
I have several blogs and I see google at least a few time per day. Yahoo and MSN a bit less, but they are generally in my logs at least once every other day.
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haha i barely have time to update this blog
sweet, thanks! i would love to see those statistics.
Question: Does anyone know how often google updates their Crawl Stats page in webmaster?
my blog http://www.diyanswerdirect.com/blog hasnt been indexed for two weeks and my site http://www.diyanswerdirect.com has been indexed but never gets updated. Is there anyone who can tell me when google or bing updates there search engines please thankyou lee help
I get crawled almost daily on my site. I update it daily though so that would be the reasoning.
If google crawled our site an indexed it incorrectly, what is the easiest way to recover? We have submitted an updated sitemap and blocked the bad url’s with robots.txt and requested url removal. Is this the proper procedure?
yes that would be the correct path.
Thats a great tool offered FOC…
Thanks guys.
We were indexed incorrectly as well. We got everything cleaned up, but we have not recovered in regards to our rankings. We use to be top five for generics and now we are on page five. Any suggestions?
I find that time is the biggest factor in getting re-ranked. Try and get some buzz (inbound links) going to your site again.
Great article, thanks for the write up.
[...] Google indexes the Internet about once a month. If you have a popular site, it will index you more often, but generally if you’re a new site they won’t get to you for a while. You can submit a request for indexing to Google, but this won’t guarantee they get to you faster. How soon they index you is determined by the popularity of your site and the quality of your page ranking. How can you increase your chances of getting hits? Increase your chances of getting indexed. [...]
HmI hadn’t never thought the obviously simple ways a search engine like Google worked in. The truth of the thing is that even though a spider looks at your page multiple times, it takes a metric tonne of work on your part to get a website to become relevent to Google. I guess this just adds to my understanding of search engines.
! I had considered the simple ways the big G works. The thing is that even though a spider looks at your page countless times, it takes a ton of effort on your part to get a website to become relevent to Google. I guess this lends to my understanding of search engines.
[...] Google indexes the Internet about once a month. If you have a popular site, it will index you more often, but generally if you’re a new site they won’t get to you for a while. You can submit a request for indexing to Google, but this won’t guarantee they get to you faster. How soon they index you is determined by the popularity of your site and the quality of your page ranking. Google’s webmaster central offers more information on “indexing” and “crawling” here. How can you increase your chances of getting hits? Increase your chances of getting indexed. [...]
I didnt trust all of seo meters. Because its says your seo is 99% but its not help me?
Thanks for the good information.
I see google at least a few time per day. Yahoo and MSN a bit less, but they are generally in my logs at least once every other day…….
I have noticed that as my page ranking has increased my blog SEO has improved. I imagine this is true for the spiders as well. Thanks for the information.
I was curious about how often Google crawls our website. Our site has been around for more than 6 months, but rankings do not change. I’m not sure if we are penalized for over optimization as there are too many “bounce house” keywords floating around out website as we only sell bounce houses. It’s good to know, so we’ll submit our site to see how often we are visited by Google. Thanks.