Googlebot too shy lately

not much pageviews

[jeffroy]

for about 10 days I have very few hits daily from Googlebot for a PR5 site which I used to get 10-80k hits per day from Googlebot.

what could be the cause?

[tedster]

There's a report deep in one of the other active threads about the same thing. And yet, others are reporting MORE spidering activity. Part of Big Daddy was a change in spidering patterns, so I guess that's what we're seeing.

As long as Google search traffic is maintaining for you, I think it's probably too early to worry, unless you are changing content many times a week. Then IBLs directly to key pages would probably help the situation.

[jeffroy]

it seems to have turned back to normal. today I got 35000 hits, so probably will have no problem anymore

[arbitrary]

As I mentionned in the other thread, crawling is way down for me. Unfortunately, I'm not able to properly quantify that decrease. Traffic levels have stayed about the same but I have noticed in the past that when crawling decreases, site traffic declines usually follow.

[adamovic]

At my sites crawling from Googlebot 2.1 is as usual.

[heisje]

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have a large number of sites, and crawling varies considerably from site to site - some are crawled aggressively, some very modestly - while number of pages and "quality" is similar to all.

heisje

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[Atomic]

As long as Google search traffic is maintaining for you, I think it's probably too early to worry, unless you are changing content many times a week. Then IBLs directly to key pages would probably help the situation.

And what if your traffic is not maintained when you do have those IBLs directly to key pages? I'm talking about real IBLs visitor create because you follow them back and see them? Do you worry then? And these pages don't change your content often because when you do add content it's of high quality. You know, the evergreen stuff written by experts in a field. Sure the links to these pages bring in a lot of traffic on their own and that's fantastic but it leaves you wondering why Yahoo and MSN bots visit you more than ever and send more traffic than ever to reflect that.

When I see this happening it's my opinion that Googlebot ain't what it used to be. I can't help but think that Google is well aware of this. Maybe I have too high of an opinion of this content but the patterns I see are clear. Older sites I manage, regardless of quality, are hit hard by Googlebot. Newer sites, regardless of quality are not. Some of these newer sites even have more IBLs than the older sites because of some buzz generated over the last year but that doesn't seem to matter. A few, older links seem to carry a lot more weight than lots of new ones less than a year old.

So IBls seem to be great but having just a few old ones seems to trump a tremendous amount of organically created new ones. This is great news for the owners of older sites I manage but what do I tell the guy that's had a site for 3 years that's seen his site removed? Should have had a site 2 years earlier just because that's all that matters?

Or do I suggest that he read Matt Cutts blog, drink the Cool-Aid and forget about it?

[arbitrary]

Just wanted to give this thread a bump as crawling has really slowed for me.

Anyone else?

[TerrCan123]

The cache on all my 900 or so internal pages is still March and April.