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Where's Googlebot?

By Larry Wright

Real Estate Agent with nwRealty.Com

August 30, 2007 04:27 AM

For the past couple of weeks it has become obvious that Google has dramatically slowed the frequency that it is crawling our sites. But I haven't notices any real cause for alarm ... search rankings, saturation and link popularity are all holding or improving.

This isn't limited to our main site at www.nwrealty.com. I've noticed this on all sites that we manage ... about 40 NWMLS broker sites and 65 agent sites for Washington licensees and another 10 or so sites for attornies, escrow, finance, etc. Please comment if you've noticed anything similar.

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Jason Romrell

Business Attorney and Success Advisor - Los Angeles, CA

Every post of yours I read reminds me that my cyber-education is lacking! LOL.

Aug 30, 2007 04:34 AM

Roberta Murphy

San Diego Previews Real Estate - Carlsbad, CA

Carlsbad Real Estate and Homes

Larry: Why do you think this might be occurring? A change in algorithms? Too many sites?

Aug 30, 2007 04:35 AM

Larry Wright

nwRealty.Com - Tacoma, WA

Jason - sorry, I'm trying not to use so much tehcie jargon

Roberta - I really don't know, but I suspect it is due to the number of web pages. Some time ago a Google rep commented that the continuing growth of web documents was complicating their indexing efforts.

Aug 31, 2007 04:32 AM

Roberta Murphy

San Diego Previews Real Estate - Carlsbad, CA

Carlsbad Real Estate and Homes

Larry: I would imagine the growth issues would also impact prior google algorithms.

Aug 31, 2007 04:39 AM

John Slocum

Premiere Property Group, LLC - Vancouver Washington - Vancouver, WA

Broker, SFR - Vancouver WA Real Estate

Larry -- I too have noticed fewer Google Alerts for "new links" found by the Google bot, although I've been continuing to create those new links throughout the web.

John

Aug 31, 2007 08:17 AM

Larry Wright

nwRealty.Com - Tacoma, WA

John ... it is also not removing pages. I'm watching obsolete pages in Google's cache that have been down for a month.

Sep 01, 2007 04:46 AM

Debi Wright

nwRealty.com - Seattle, WA

Any sign of Googlebot yet or any explanation of what's going on with Google and Yahoo?

Sep 10, 2007 06:18 AM

Lane Bailey

Century 21 Results Realty - Suwanee, GA

Realtor & Car Guy

I administer a 4 wheel drive club forum (not that I'm good, but that I made a suggestion to have one). I haven't seen a slowdown in the spider activity. I can see them live in the forum, and there are a couple floating around almost all of the time.

Sep 10, 2007 11:05 AM

Jordan M. Mackey

Overland Park Real Estate (No association with Inc) - Overland Park, KS

Overland Park Real Estate ::

Slow downs and to much information aren't the problems. Trust me Google's making about 9 billion per quarter thats PROFIT... They are not hurting for space or the ability to crawl websites.

My guess Larry at why you are noticing a slow down on all the websites that you manage are due to the excessive linking you have on your nwrealty homepage. I would suggest breaking up all those links into category sub-pages example website.com/commercial-brokers and website.com/local-city-realtors, your set-up right now could be hurting the pages you're hosting because its an easy red flag for the search engines.

They see you're page and are like oh my all these pages are all run by the same person or entity. You're probably using reseller hosting as well and unless you are using multiple class c ip's that will also hurt the websites you're hosting. Because they once again will get another flag against them for all being hosted under the same ip address or within the same class c.

Hope that helps to speed up your bot crawling a bit ;-)

Sep 10, 2007 02:03 PM

Larry Wright

nwRealty.Com - Tacoma, WA

Thanks Lane & Jordan. The slow down of crawling is just an observation. All other signals are positive. Back links, traffic and saturation are still improving. And yes Jordan, I'm aware of the excessive links on www.nwrealty.net. That's been a "back burner" issue for some time.

Sep 11, 2007 03:33 AM

Debi Wright

nwRealty.com - Seattle, WA

Maybe it should be moved off the 'back burner'... just a thought

Sep 11, 2007 10:28 AM

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