SEOmeter.com offers a convenient free online tool that allows webmasters to monitor Google’s crawling rate on their website. A backend engine collects Google’s cache update events and maintain them in the database, and the front-end tool offers a convenient ajax-driven interface for visualizing/comparing Google’s crawl rate. Site submission is free for top-level domain & sub-domain sites.

Did you know why this search engine crawling is so important for webmaster? It is because there are basically millions of websites out there in the cyberspace, it is impossible to check for the updates of every websites manually. Therefore, the search engine crawler was created to crawl over the websites all over the internet to look for newly updated content from the webmaster. Meaning that, if your website is updated more often, then most probably your website will get more crawled by search engine.

Tracking the cycle time for search engines to crawl through your website is one of the important strategies in Search Engine Optimization, or simply, SEO. If your website is crawled more often than a website which is less, then your website have a better chance of getting ranked at a higher results in search engine like Google, Yahoo and MSN. That is why webmasters are very sensitive to this search engine crawling time cycle.

Now, SEOmeter.com provide FREE a tool for you to check for how often did your site get crawled by search engine! It is such a useful tool for all the webmaster. Which means that if you have a blog, you can actually know when did the crawler crawl through your website, and this provide a clearer picture when you should update your blog. Here is what says about the benefits of using this tool:

It is usually the case that a website “trusted” by search engines is crawled by search engine robots more frequently. This trust, in turn, is reflected in the website’s search engine ranking. Therefore, by monitoring search engine’s crawling activities, webmasters can gauge the search engine’s trust in their website. SEO marketers can also utilize our service and quantify the benefit/effectiveness of their marketing campaign by checking the historical up/down trend of search engine crawling rate of their customer site. Finally, our historical chart is useful to detect and diagnose any site specific problem that interferes with search engine robot’s crawling.

So now you know why are search engine crawls important if you want to work for SEO. Here is the Top-20 Most Crawled Sites in search engine category.

Just like tracking your website stats with Google Analytics, StatCounter or SiteMeter, it is important to know when your site is going to get crawled by the search engine crawler. The only difference is that SEOmeter.com does not track for your website’s page views or number of visitors, instead it tracks the number of how often search engine crawler crawl through and update your site.

If you are interested in looking for more information on how to improve your website for SEO, you can always visit SEOmeter blog for more details. Now, I guess the only cons with SEOmeter.com is that it is not free, it takes $20 per year for you to add your internal URL into it. As for any top-level domain or sub-domain, they are FREE! However, $20 is rather a low investment. If you calculated by days, it will only cost you about $0.06 per day, which is a small investment everyone can afford. Check it out, SEOmeter.com.

Above is the sample of the crawl cycle chart for paramountplaces.com and forum.iraqun.net. You can see that the SEOmeter.com is also in scripted inside the chart.

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