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    • EcommerceSite
      EcommerceSite last edited by

      I recently setup Cloudflare so I can see how much my site is being crawled. It looks like Bing is crawling me about 3 times as much as Google. Any ideas on why that would be or what I should check?

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      • WilliamKammer
        WilliamKammer last edited by

        Are you running paid search ads as well? If so, I usually notice Bing bot being very active at the beginning of a campaign.

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        • EcommerceSite
          EcommerceSite @WilliamKammer last edited by

          I am running both Bing and Google ads. I turned the campaigns off for the two weeks around the holiday's and flipped them back on last Monday. maybe it will end up being equal over time. I still feel like my crawl is low. I am submitting 25k items on a sitemap but I am not hitting a 25k crawl.

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          • WilliamKammer
            WilliamKammer @EcommerceSite last edited by

            It could settle. Also, there's a "crawl control" feature in Bing webmasters, if you haven't tried that yet.

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            • EcommerceSite
              EcommerceSite @WilliamKammer last edited by

              I have taken a look at that and mine is set normal. I also checked Google and that is set to what they recommend.

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