Google Webmaster Tools crawl rate custom slow
increase all will be explained hello and welcome
in this video tutorial session I'm going to explain
custom crawl rate Google Webmaster Tools allows you
to tweak once you log into your Google
Webmaster Tools in 2014
instead of having it on the left hand side Google now has the
setting on the right hand side therefore simply press this settings
icon and Press on site setting and then Google will give you this page now
the crawl rate Google highly recommends is you let Google optimize
the crawl rate for almost 99
percent of the websites at times you may want to increase
decrease slow set custom
crawl rate right you can read more it let's say we
Press on this custom settings
and then tweak around with this now
first of all remember this unless you have a website
so only people who will actually benefit from
setting custom crawl rate to
increase the crawl rate is websites who
actually put out content perhaps every one hour like
News sites for example so
if you tweak this setting here and if you're like
most website owners like me
you then you're not gonna make any difference
Google is not going just because you set
this high it's not going to come and crawl your website
quicker so that's not why you what want to use
custom setting here once again there are uses for that's why Google makes
it available only uses as I've said
is if you have a website gets you put out content
every one hour then you can set
this to high to let Google crawl your website
make HTTP requests to your website and do so quicker
but you know putting this high here
is not going to make Google come and crawl your website faster
and you may think well if that's the case why have
this available here well
to be honest with you this is actually available
to make the crawl rate go-slower not
make it go faster so
let's imagine a website that's getting very popular is putting out
content every two minutes every hour for example and
there's a lot of people coming to that particular website
other people who are visiting that
website is also making the request to their server right
and well if then if Google then comes every
let's say every two seconds making another
request to the same web server
that may actually create complications
to the website in question okay
so therefore that particular website owner
may come in to set custom crawl rates to
either slow it down and you may say well why is it high
well every Webmaster Tools account holder and
every website will be different that's why when you see this
you may think okay you know yours is somewhere here
you just wanna make Google come and crawl
your website for whatever the reason surely we all want that and the
only way you can make Google come and visit your website quicker and faster
is by putting out content
often and consistently like news web sites or community hubs online
so
that's all you need to know as far as playing around with this setting
so once again leave it at setting Google
recommends unless Googlebot
requests to your website is causing problems
making your server go down and so on
that is the only time you would want to play and set
custom crawl rates I thank you very much
for your visit I thought I wanted to make this video tutorial because
it is a question that not many webmasters
understand so therefore you now know why you would want to set custom
crawl rates to increase it or slow it down this is
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