How to activate Page Fetching and Rendering
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We have a coupons and deal website. Coupons are added and removed from the website on a daily basis. But crawler isn't crawling it that often. Lately we started fetching and rendering the page, but that is a time taking task as we have more than 500 stores with coupons.
So, I was looking for some API or some method using which the crawler would crawl the website as defined. Suppose "x" store page should be crawled every alternate day as we daily update the coupons there, whereas "y" store coupons are update fortnightly so , they can be crawled weekly.
Can somebody suggest me something..
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Hi Anukul
As far as I am aware, it is not possible to fetch and render via an API - however you can double-check the documentation here: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/
It sounds like what you really need to work on perhaps is Crawl Optimization. If Google thinks the site is important enough, they will crawl it fast enough to catch all of the changes.
AJ Kohn wrote and excellent post on it here which I highly encourage you check out. Here are a few other resources on getting Google to crawl your site faster:
- https://blog.kissmetrics.com/googlebot-optimization/
- http://moz.com/blog/seo-log-file-analysis-part-2
- http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/optimize-your-crawling-indexing.html
Hope those help!