Identifying Crawl Rates As Part Of SEO
Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
If you know how often your pages, and which pages, are crawled by the search engines you may get a fair idea as to which pages are important. This is an important statistic when it comes to assessing the effectiveness of your SEO strategies.
Gray Wolf’s SEO Blog has a post that discusses the issue in some depth. The most difficult part of the concept is getting reliable crawl rate data. It’s not impossible and Gray Wolf’s post details one method.
The comments section offered more advice on how to get these statistics. For those who are serious and are trying to get that little bump up in the search results, they may find crawl rates interesting and worth chasing.
For most website owners, there are for more important tasks that should be done first. On page optimization follows a standard formula these days. From titles, URL’s and content - the SEO concept is fairly standard. Make sure they right before worrying too much about crawl rates.
Off page SEO tasks should be your next task, ensuring every area has been tackled and is working in the right direction. This means building good quality links back into your pages.
Crawl rates are important and if you can gain access to those numbers, you have an indication of which pages need further promoting and which ones are being visited on a regular basis. This information is fine as part of your SEO, however, try not to get bogged down in it until the rest of the on and off page search engine optimization tasks have been completed.
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