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SEOMeter is a new analytics tool that tracks how often Google is crawling your website, and they win my gratitude as being the first to order a paid review. SEOMeter displays graphs of your blog/site and the related crawl cycles (CC), which are how often Google visits your blog for new content. If you have a crawl cycle of 1.0, then Google visits your blog once per day. With this in mind, the lower your CC the more trusted Google finds your blog. If that introduction was over your head, you can check out their FAQ page which might explain it better than I can.
When SEOMeter started at the end of last month, they were a paid analytics service. Much like my launch of rssHugger, they have changed their business model and are now completely free to join. SEOMeter has its own company blog that is seldom updated, but it shows that the company has been periodically adding new features to upgrade their service.
On the site, they feature a directory-like listing for the top 20 most crawled sites of each category. Categories include internet marketing, colleges and universities, search engines, and small business.
I am a big fan of anything that tracks statistics because it allows me to see my blog’s growth. Now that SEOMeter is free to join, I have joined and will be using it myself. I wish I would have joined a month ago to see an accurate growth after switching to the faster google crawl option in my webmaster tools.
The flaws/cons
Is the system foolproof and 100% accurate? It shows that ReadWriteWeb is visited more often than Engadget, while Engadget is a lot more popular. Also, after a blog reaches a certain point (becomes really popular), the graphing loses value as every single blogs graph would eventually plateau at the same point, below is a simple example. Please know that I edited the picture so it would fit inside a blog post, but the graph dots themselves are represented accurately.
Would I recommend it?
Well, now that it is completely free you have nothing to lose. Go sign up and see if Google visits your blog more often than mine!
In fact I am using seo meter for the past 15 days,the main disadvantage is it doesnot have any clear explanation of what it shows…I am sure it is not for noobs
I have that too because I want to see blogs who have do-follows.
I understand the technical part of this, but what’s the business reason for tracking how often you’re being crawled? What actions are you going to take after you learn your crawl rate, and how are they any different than what you’d do if you didn’t know about the crawl rate?
I believe it is the same as Alexa or most other graphing analytic sites. It is more to see growth rather than anything else. Just a neat free tool.
great suggestion. thanks for sharing this tool with us
Thanks for this great post.
Nice tool. I’ll try using this in the future.