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(Entry was posted by Ehtesham Shaikh on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/04/2017).

Sudden increase in crawl rate

Hi All,

Want to know what could be the reason for sudden increase in crawl rate?

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Thanks In Advance
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  • Ehtesham Shaikh: Hi All,

    Want to know what could be the reason for sudden increase in crawl rate?

    Attachment for reference.

    Thanks In Advance
  • Rotimi Orimoloye (Orims): +Ehtesham Shaikh
    It depends.
    Could be a host of reasons.

    But perhaps you haven't already read the GSC help?
    See here:


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  • Dave Elliott: Loads of possible reasons for this!

    a) Google views your site as more important all of a sudden due to better rankings/new links
    b) there have been lots of content/design changes on your site
    c) all of a sudden, due to a plugin for example, your site is creating lots of new pages, which google needs to crawl
    d) Google-bot is mental and does what it wants

    Could be any of those and a load more things.

    

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/04/2017).