Hi Guys, I recently stumbled upon this site called SEOmeter – shows you graphically how Google crawls your site, all the info is made available to you in terms of graphics useful for seo analysis and understanding the behavior of the Google Bot. SeoMeter has come up with a new term “crawl cycle (CC)” which is the time between two consecutive crawls by search engine robots.

A short Crawl rate (CC) means that the website is crawled multiple times by Google and chances are there the content is rapidly updating on these forums (e.g Digg.com which really has massive user generated content) and definitely enjoys Google’s trust and also higher search engine rankings. A larger CC will be more for a static websites where the content is not updated on a regular basis.

Let’s us put SeoMeter – Google Crawl tool to the real test with sites like CNN.com and then we will compare the Crawl rate with other sites.

With the graph that shows the crawl frequency you get complete analysis as shown in the figure below.

Now you also have the option of comparing sites or blogs in terms of how well they perform in terms of the crawl rate. You can also generate button that can be displayed on your blog that shows how Google crawls your site as shown in the image to the right.

I was just about to compare and check how all the web directories performed on the Google Crawl meter until I found Top-20 Most Crawled Sites in Web Directories Category that lists all the major directories with crawl rate. Not to be surprised Yahoo directory and Info Vilesilencer list are the obvious topped the list with a crawl rate of 0.7 (wow)

I really suggest that this is an awesome tool for directory owners to check how well their site is performing and how well it is being crawled and is performing with so much data made available in form of graphs. Start to monitor your site’s crawling activities you will have to submit your site to Seometer & also the submission is free for the top level domain and the sub-domain. There is a annual fee of $20.00 for internal url submission (which is really nominal).

Thumbs Up :

1. SeoMeter has a nice Web 2.0 design and does not deviate from the core tool offered.

2. Blog with updated information on the tool.

3. Good use of graphs on all the pages & all the information is easily made available.

4. Nice idea listing Top-20 Most Crawled Sites on the Web

Suggestions : I think it nice tool & it’s abilities should not be limited only to the Google bot (monitoring only Google crawl), But other bot’s should like Yahoo and MSN should also be included.

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