How to Set Custom Crawl Rate in Google Webmaster Tools?

[CommercePundit]

This is really silly question to set custom crawl rate in Google webmaster tools. Any one can find out that section under setting tab. But, I have confusion to decide number for request per second and second between requests text field.

I want to set custom crawl rate for my eCommerce website.

I checked my Google webmaster tools and find out as attachment. So, Can I use this facility to improve my crawling?

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[DanHill]

It's better to just leave it on default - custom crawl rates are only needed if you're experiencing traffic problems from the server(as stated in your screenshot).

Yyou will also use more bandwidth on your own server by the google bot coming more often so this should also be something you think about. Also worth mentioning is that after 90 days it will go back to default settings.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/learn-more-about-googlebots-crawl-of.html

[CommercePundit]

Hi Daniel,

I was thinking about it due to very less number of indexing. Thanks for your suggestion.