How to tell how often Google crawls someone else's site
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How can I tell how often Google crawls someone else's site?
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To get a rough idea , check the cache date in SERPS for a couple of days ad see how often that changes.
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Dear Friend,
You can do this by browsing on your WEB log files and looking for the string "http://www.google.com/bot.html"
How often your site is crawled by google depends on many factors ie.:
1. How often you add or modify content.
2. How many links are pointing to your site.
3. and more.
In my experience this crawler freq. is a good signal of active and quality site.
Hope it help
Claudio
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You can't -- but the better question is why does it matter/is it important to you?
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