Is Setting Google Crawl Rate To "Fast" Bad For SEO?

[surenot]

Setting Google crawl rate to FAST bad for SEO?

[netmeg]

No. It might be bad for your server, though.

[webcentric]

I suppose it could be bad for SEO if your server can't handle it and starts throwing errors or responds very slowly every time G crawls.

[lucy24]

:: detour to check something ::

Where the ### do you change the crawl rate? I used to see the setting all the time-- fenced-in by requests to leave it alone and let the Googlebot make its own decisions-- but now I've looked through every single tab in wmt and I can't find the ### thing. (They still don't like Crawl-Delay in robots.txt, though.)

In practice, would Google ever crawl faster than its chosen rate just because you asked it to?

[surenot]

Thanks guys I am on the shared hosting and that will for sure create a lot of problems with SQL connections.

[netmeg]

In practice, would Google ever crawl faster than its chosen rate just because you asked it to?

Nope. As far as I remember, that option was for slowing it down if it was hammering your server.

You're right though, I don't see anything that refers to crawl rate anymore. It's been years since I even looked for it, so I never noticed that they took it out.

[Shai]

Where the ### do you change the crawl rate?

From [support.google.com...]

Change the crawl rate:
1.On the Search Console Home page, click the site you want.
2.Click the gear icon , then click Site Settings.
3.In the Crawl rate section, select the option you want.

When we last messed around with this setting, which admittedly was a few years ago now, we observed no difference in crawl rate at all. Neither up or down. Never really bothered with it since. Might have a little play with it later though and see if anything changed since.