Crawl rate

[jwdl]

Hello,

In google WMT my site has the following message.

<form class="form" action="/webmasters/tools/settings-ac?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.prom-hairstyles.org/&amp;siteUrl=http://www.prom-hairstyles.org/&amp;hl=en" method="POST">Your site has been assigned special crawl rate settings. You will not be able to change the crawl rate.Why would this be?A bit of backgound - this site was hammered by Penguin or maybe panda but seems to be dragging itself back up (maybe) but has dropped from several thousand visitors/day to 100 or so.Cheers,Ian</form>

[RyanKent]

What is your hosting setup? Are you using some form of cloud hosting such as Amazon or have a CDN set up?

Generally speaking, that message from Google is a good thing. It means they have optimized your crawl rate based on your setup. If you feel there is a need to adjust the rate, it can be done. Are you experiencing any issue?

The Panda/Penguin issue would have no relation to your crawl rate settings.

[jwdl]

Thanks for replying, I have been using a CDN (up until a week ago) and no there haven't been any issues that I can put down to this, I just hadn't seen a message like that before and wondered if it was significant.

[RyanKent]

There is nothing negative about the message. It is common and expected for sites which use CDNs.

[jwdl]

OK thanks.

Ian