High amount of crawling from googlebot?

[olimits7]

Hi,

Lately, I've been noticing a high amount of crawling from googlebot on my site; around 45+ instances of googlebot. Once it finishes googlebot drops off my site, but then a couple days later I notice around 45+ instances again.

Do you guys notice the same thing on your site from googlebot?

Is this a good thing or should I limit how often google crawls my site?

Thank you,

olimits7

[dpd1]

I noticed they are getting very efficient lately. I've seen posts I made on forums come up in searches a few hours later. It blew me away. I was like... Oh, here's some info... Oh wait, that was me. lol

As long as it doesn't hurt anything, I wouldn't mess with anything they do... God only knows what effect it would have.

[olimits7]

Hahaha...I noticed the same thing I did a search for this same topic on Google soon after I posted it and I thought the same thing.

I was like, great, there is some info out there on this and then I realized it was me...haha.

[lucy24]

Google absolutely adores the WebmasterWorld forums. If only they gave half as much time to our own sites :(

[pogodan]

If googlebot is generating so much traffic it's slowing down the site for other users, you should rate-limit it. You can actually do that by signing in to Google's webmaster tools and changing the crawl rate for your site: [google.com...]