Day 15: No wonder they call it a “crawl”
One frustrating thing about this project is the clear delay between any optimization work I do here and the potential results in my Google SERP. According to Google Webmaster Tools, Googlebot hasn’t crawled this site since April 3. That means some of the things I’ve been working on, including link-building, cleaning up broken links and fixing the overall structure of this blog—have yet to make their way into my overall ranking. And there seems to be nothing I can do about it. All of the SEO experts say that the best way to get G’bot to increase its crawl frequency is by updating your site more frequently and get more links. Well, I’m doing both, but it hasn’t helped yet. Of course, SEO isn’t about overnight success; it can take months to improve your rankings. So, I’ll keep waiting, and waiting, and waiting … and checking my Webmaster Dashboard six times a day!
April 28th, 2008 17:32
[...] far all of my efforts have been for naught. The biggest issue seems to be the fact that Google is crawling this site very infrequently, which means nothing I’ve done over the past month has registered with the Goog. It’s [...]