Googlebot activity drop off
I've just looked and I can't say I understand what I am seeing.
The URL errors across all my subdomains shot up during the first week in April, then levelled off at a high level on my slapped subdomains, but gently declined on my unslapped accounts.
But there has been no change in the last few days that would account for the steep drop-off in crawls.
Hi Sf
My Google traffic is the same, its the Googlebot traffic.
It's when Google's spiders visit your hubs. If you lose traffic from Google, then it follows that you will lose bot activity too. Not sure which comes first, bit of a chicken and egg scenario.
But this latest odd phenomenon is Google traffic remaining constant, but Googlebot activity falling off a cliff.
So far, only Lisa seems to have the same thing.
Marisa, I have no idea what day of the week it is half the time!
Here is my site url errors graph for the last month or two -
It's gone tiny. The rise started round about the 2nd of April.Just went looking again, and on my penguined subdomain, the crawl errors rose sharply on the 19th of April, although traffic didn't actually disappear until the 24th.
A huge amount of the errors are similar to this one -
1027454/ca-pub-6958755572607374/health_hub_leaderboard_320x50
That isn't even my Adsense ID; it must be HP's.
Those errors have stayed high as can be seen on the graph.
These were all 404 errors, and Google hates that account now, sending less than 10 visitors per day to it.
So its not just me, and all my accounts. And yes you are right, it started end of May -
That's the account that got Penguined!I don't usually even look at this particular thing (and I'm not sure I'm glad that I did, because I can't see how it could possibly not be a bad thing.
) Of course, I don't know anything about crawling anyway, for pretty much the most part. Mine's a pretty dramatic drop after things had looked many times higher for a few months.
(I've been thinking I didn't seem to be Penguined. I've been thinking I may more have been Panda.x.blah blah'd (whatever the one at the end of May was). But, I have sort of OK-enough (considering) traffic, which is why I didn't think I was Penguined at all and may have only been "sort of Panda'd" (but I didn't even think that; I've just been thinking "long, slow, decline"
(Just went back and looked closer):
I have a bunch of crawl errors (not found) that happened after I started deleting a bunch of Hubs at the beginning of May. Does have too many of those make them "cool it" for awhile I wonder?You're asking me? I haven't a clue.
I also have an increase in 404 errors on this account; they are looking for hubs I have unpublished, so that is understandable.
But that still doesn't explain the crawl rate drop on my other accounts where there has been no change.
This account is doing well, and still suffered this massive drop in crawl rates -
Maybe someone will come along that knows what all this is, and comment.
I am getting worried now. I hate them, they do nothing good for me. Google were mithering me with pop-ups and I've searched and cannot find out how to get them off.
I can't right click and delete either - the mouse turns into a 'No entry' sign when hovered over it.
All my ad units are darkened with some kind of overlay - the pic has gone tiny, but the writing along the top of them in white says Home_hub_content, Home_hub_sidebar and Home_hub_footer, depending on ad position. It also lists the size of the ad - 270x288 etc, and at the bottom it says GAM and ad size.Really? I must have a good look around to find where it is, so that I can turn it off.
I did a web search but no-one else seems to have this problem as the overlay function is usually something you use on your own web-sites, apparently.
I don't have it on mine, just on HP (on two accounts only).
I am always logged into Google.
If anyone knows exactly where this function is, I'd love to know
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