Plugin Friday 2 – Crawl Rate Tracker for Wordpress
This week’s best plugin is Wordpress Crawl Rate Tracker by Patrick Altoft
This plugin is also helpful for bloggers to check how good their blog is daily crawled by search engines. Through this plugin, you can check how good the 3 search engines are crawling the blog – MSN, Yahoo and Google.
Writing and writing stuff won’t help you unless you are crawled well by search engine spiders. And after your blog pages are crawled by search engines, then you can see them indexed and ranking in the search engines. So this plugin helps in analyzing the strength of your blog and its individual posts and pages.
Here are the features that you can find -
- Access crawl data for 3 main search engines
- See the exact times a spider accessed any page on your site
- Monitor your crawl rate over time
- Discover how crawl rate is related to PageRank
It gives you the correct number of crawls per day by each search engine bot, and the image that am showing below is a flash in the wordpress dashboard, and the installation process of the theme is very easy.
The plugin also gives the information of crawling of a particular page in your blog, like when was the last time it was crawled by a spider of any specific search engine out of the three.
It surely helps you in letting you know which pages are lesser crawled and need attention and worked upon, so that they too get properly crawled well by the search engine spiders.
Installation of the plugin -
- Download the plugin to your computer
- Unzip the zip file and upload the entire folder to the wp-content/plugins section
- Activate the plugin in your wordpress dashboard plugins section
- You will see the link to the tracker page in the dashboard index page.
