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Google Webmaster Tools Take A Step Forward 
By: Scott Van Achte 2006-10-19 Google's Webmaster Tools have taken another step forward with advanced spider reporting and control features.
New Googlebot activity reports are quite interesting and graphically spell out the frequency of visits to your site over the past 90 days. Data displayed includes the number of pages crawled per day, bandwidth used, and the total time spend downloading pages. It also displays the maximums, minimums, and daily averages for each. So how is this useful? If you feel that Googlebot needs a bit more guidance on your site, you can use the new Crawl Rate Control to help with spider visit frequencies. If you find that Googlebot is sucking back too much bandwidth you can set this to "slower". This will reduce Google's visits and your server resource use, however the downside is it may not be able to crawl your site as often. If you select "faster", Googlebot will do just that, spider your site more quickly, but you will also notice a downside of a larger load on your server. By default sites are set at "normal" which is recommended in most cases. These two new features are discussed in some more detail by Vanessa Fox on the Google Webmaster Central Blog . Tag: Google, Webmaster Tools Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Yahoo! My Web |  Furl
Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Scott Van Achte is the Senior SEO at StepForth Web Marketing. Since Joining the StepForth team back in early 2003 he has thoroughly enjoyed working in the search engine industry. When he is not busy earning his keep, Scott can be found spending quality time with his wife Lyndsay and new daughter Emma. Scott would be happy to answer any questions and can be reached at scott@stepforth.com. |
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