How often are the Search Engines Crawling Your Blog?
Feb 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm in KARMA by ian
Very promising new WordPress plugin for tracking search engine activity while crawling your internal pages, seems to have some fun bells and whistles you won’t get from analytics alone – will give you all kinds of data that "might" give you a bit more of a window into which pages/links/and external sites are giving you more bang for your "buck" than might be visible in how most people interact with Google analytics. Times, rates, frequencies, etc – all from your WP admin panel…check it out, it’s free and you can find it at the link below: ( I did)
With the advent of Google Analytics and other JavaScript based solutions a lot of webmasters have lost the ability to easily analyse log files to see how search engines are interacting with their site. Google Webmaster Central offers a nice graphing feature so you can see the crawl trends but there is no way to access meaningful data. Studying crawl rate is hugely important because it helps you find out which pages are trusted most by the search engines (especially Google). The more Google trusts a page the greater the frequency it will re-visit that page. If you build a few deep links and see your crawl rate for the target page suddenly increase you can be confident that the links are highly trusted and that you should try to get some more.Today we are releasing a plugin for WordPress that allows you to track crawl activity for MSN, Yahoo & Google from your dashboard.
WordPress Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin
Tags: serps, search engine analytics
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