number of googlebot hits

how many do you get?

[vampke]

Hi guys,

How many googlebot hits per month can one expect for a fairly modest site?
My site is about 100 pages and i get around 1000 hits a month.
Is this something to worry about? Or should I be happy for all the love i'm getting?

v.

[Brett_Tabke]

that is about right. anywhere from 5 x to 10 x the number of pages you have on the site per month is fairly standard.

[ThomasB]

The PR and frequency of changes on your site is also a factor you should take into consideration. The higher your PR the more GB hits you can expect.

[Brett_Tabke]

Not entirely true any more. I have not found a correlation between PR and spider frequency lately.

What we have found, is that the more you update the page, the more often you get visited by the bot.

[ThomasB]

ok, test from beginning of october:
- 2 sites with no links, new domain
- 1 link from pr 8 page (5 external links), 1 link from PR 7 page (5 external links)
- pretty much same, but unique content
- same linking structure

Status today:
- PR 8 linked site: 54k pages indexed
- PR 7 linked site: 31k pages indexed

For me it looks pretty much like PR 8 has an advantage.

[pipster2004]

Um...Not sure
My PR5 site has had 93k hits so far today!

Which is killing my Server!

20 searches a second at some points!

[ThomasB]

What about deeplinks into subpages? Maybe you have 100 PR 4 subpages or so

[HarryM]

I have a gut feel that crawl rate depends on home page PR. My site has grown considerably but the number of Googlebot hits per month is about the same. I assume this is because my home page PR has remained more or less static. As my incoming links are increased, in theory my home page PR should be growing, but of course it is being shared by an ever increasing number of lower-level pages.

This is giving me problems. Due to the random way that Googlebot crawls pages, there are many that the bot visits multiple times per week but there are always a few that get missed. As a result I frequently find a handful of pages that have lost their snippets.

These pages are typically PR3, so I'm sure it has little to do with the page PR but is a statistical effect due to the randomness of Googlebot's crawl. It seems the larger the site the more home page PR you need to keep all your pages alive.

[Tech2004]

I tend to see Harrys theory in action on my site too. Mine is maybe PR4 -5, indexed in Google since Dec 2003. Have not done any link exchange with other sites since then either. Was great till about July, and Google dropped the 5 most visited pages to my site that it indexed for that month. That month I think June, I got 750 hits alone from Google, and was for the most part, the best month for the site. Well, those pages are still gone, and gradually every other page has followed suit except fo rthe home page. Recently, the site maps re-appeared, but no search terms or key phrases unique to it come up in a Google search. Have been through the HTML, and other engines inxex the entire site - fine, so seems to be a Google only problem. Too bad they dont or cant tell you what exactly are the reasons when such things happen. We are I guess suppose
to figure out the googlebot tendencies on our own.