Drop in GoogleBot visits?

Little to no activity on June

[Spelunker]

Hi, I've seen a huge drop in GoogleBot visits on my sites.

From hundreds of visits in May and before, I'm seeing little to no activity now in June from Googlebot.

Anyone else?

[Jack_Hughes]

i've seen a drop too, though not down to zero. my googlebot activity has dropped by around half.

my suspicion is that it is related to the pr update of a couple of weeks ago. googlebot visits high pr sites more than lesser pr sites. we went from a pr 6 to a pr 5, so that may explain our fall off in googlebot visits.

have you seen a drop in your pr?

[Spelunker]

Actually, my sites kept the same PR, but i'm only seeing a little of GoogleBot visits on PR6 sites, but around 2 to 3% of what it used to be.

In the last update i only lost some backward links, could this be the reason?

Anyway, it's pretty weird.

[digitalv]

Could be because Google is full :)

[coburn]

Can also confirm a 50% drop with the last PR update. Even if your PR doesn't drop - the green bar is such a rough figure that it's not reliable enough to know whether you're a high PR6 or low.

[somerset]

We have noticed shallow spidering, just skirting around a few files, but no deep crawls.

[metrostang]

Same here for the past 2 to 3 weeks. Googlebot will visit 50 to 150 pages and leave. Previous visits would grab 2 to 3 thousand pages at a time. Also noticed that many of our pages are showing with no title and no description. Probably related to reduced Gbot activity.

[sublime1]

We have seen steady, daily GoogleBot traffic (actually seeing a major drop off during May). One interesting note: while the normal user-agent signature contains a link to the google page describing the spider, referrer like:

"Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

we have seen another that is just

"GoogleBot/2.1"

(Note uppercase/lowercase B in Bot if you're grepping your logs :). WHOIS both indicates these are from legit Google IPs. The one without the URL is sporadic and has come just several times over the last few weeks; the "normal" one has been regular this month.

Probably someone knows the difference between these two.

[stevenmusumeche]

I am seeing the opposite behavior on my sites. On average, I get about 3000-4000 GoogleBot requests for pages each day between 4-5 sites.

[Imaster]

Same here. I have noticed a decrease by almost 75% for most of the sites I monitor. Several of them are 7 PRs and none are below 5 PR.