Googlebot reduced it's daily visits

used to spider like 30 pages a day, now only the frontpage

[gunther]

Hello all,

until about three weeks ago, googlebot spidered like 30 pages a day on our site.
From one day on another, only the refreshbot comes everyday. I haven't seen any other page than the homepage spidered for three weeks now.

The site is PR6, and we're not losing leads from search results, but we don't see new pages on our site show up in the results either (they're not getting spidered, allthough there's a direct link to them on the homepage).

What are the possible reasons for this behaviour, and must I worry for my position after the next google update?
Or do I have to submit the new pages manually? I don't think G would like that, so I'm not very keen to do that.
However, we've worked so hard over the past few weeks on great content, and noone is able to find it ...

regards,

Günther.

[crash]

Have you had any changes to your site? Of the sites I handle the ones that have more than minimal changes to appear to get spidered more often than those that don't change at all or only change on the front page.

[gunther]

Well, for over the last 1,5 months, the site has been growing. New content has been put online like 4 or 5 pages a week.

Günther

[crash]

Well, working my way down I found a relevant post by GoogleGuy himself :) [webmasterworld.com...]

adding: but are any of the current pages changing to reflect the new pages? (as in adding links, etc) if the pages Google already has are not changing and they are telling Gbot that they haven't changed it may not be picking up on this new content.

btw - totally guessing based on your posts, obviously I don't have all the info to make an informed guess ;)

[gunther]

Well... that's the weird thing. We regularly did small changes to existing content (spelling fixes, some extra paragraphs) as well as adding links to the related new content in it.

I really can't understand what's happening...

[RFranzen]

Perhaps GoogleBot is reducing intra-site searches so that it can hit more total sites. I noticed yesterday that the index page for one of my infrequently spidered sites had been updated within the previous three days. The rest of the site is still cached in its August form.

-- Rich