How is Googlebot used to crawl a website?
Googlebot uses the sitemap.xml to discover any and all areas of the site to be crawled and indexed. Because of the variation in how sites are built and organized, the crawler may not automatically crawl every page or section.
What does it mean when Google crawls your site?
The term crawl rate means how many requests per second Googlebot makes to your site when it is crawling it: for example, 5 requests per second. You cannot change how often Google crawls your site, but if you want Google to crawl new or updated content on your site, you can request a recrawl.
How does Googlebot spend time on your website?
Here are the basics: Googlebot spends more time crawling sites with significant pagerank. The amount of time that Googlebot gives to your site is called “crawl budget.” The greater a page’s authority, the more crawl budget it receives. Googlebot is always crawling your site.
Can you change how often Google crawls a website?
You cannot change how often Google crawls your site, but if you want Google to crawl new or updated content on your site, you can request a recrawl. Google has sophisticated algorithms to determine the optimal crawl speed for a site.
What happens when you request a Google crawl?
Requesting a crawl does not guarantee that inclusion in search results will happen instantly or even at all. Our systems prioritize the fast inclusion of high quality, useful content. A sitemap is an important way for Google to discover URLs on your site.
How to ask Google to recrawl a website?
Note that if you have large numbers of URLs, you should submit a sitemap instead. Follow the general guidelines. Inspect the URL using the URL Inspection tool. Select Request indexing. The tool will run a live test on the URL to see whether it has any obvious indexing issues, and if not, the page will be queued for indexing.