Does GWT "Fetch as Google Bot" feature affect crawl rate?
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Hello Mozians,
I have noticed many people saying using GWT fetch as GoogleBot can affect your crawl rate in future, if used regularly. Though, i am not very sure if this is true or just another stale SEO myth.
As currently GWT provides a limit of 500 URLs to fetch every month. I hope my doubts will be cleared by the Moz community experts.
Thanks!
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Hi there,
I generally submit one or two new pages a day via this tool on GWT + Bing and have never really seen the crawl rate change 'which by the way I leave Google to determine'. I tend to only see changes in the frequency rates on GWT when I deploy mid to major changes on my sites, there is a constant flurry of activity over a few days then it more or less reverts to site average.
David
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