Google: Less Crawl Rate Isn't Necessarily A Bad Thing

Jun 6, 2017 - 7:35 am 0 by

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Google's John Mueller said in the pas that crawl frequency and ranking higher are not directly related and you can rank high without a high crawl frequency.

John Mueller said it another way yesterday on Twitter basically saying that if you site sees a low crawl rate, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. John wrote "that's not necessarily a bad thing." "Some sites just don't change a lot, some are just less interesting, every site's different," he added.

Here is his tweet, when someone asked why his site isn't crawled ten times more often:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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