WordPress Crawl Rate Tracker Plugin Upgraded & Re-released
Some of you might remember the Crawl Rate Tracker plugin we released way back in February 2008. This plugin was neglected for a while but we’ve now rebuilt the entire thing and re-released it with a few very nice improvements.
Download the plugin via the WordPress site or search from your Plugins section within the dashboard.
The plugin shows a chart of all the visits by Google & other major search engines to your site for any time period you want and also shows crawl information for specific pages. We’ve added the ability to see number of pages crawled per day as well as number of crawls.
Any feedback please leave either in the comments or on the WordPress site.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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Great thing, using this plugin within my blogs for a while.
The plugin looks brilliant, and has already been updated.
Will give it a try. Last version didn’t worked with my wordpress.
Very cool plugin, very useful for gaining those insights!
I made a blog using wordpress platform. I always wanted to know the traffic trends of my blog. But i am not satisfied using any other plugin as like this.
Thanks for sharing this. Again thanks to Patrick for your provided link.
Hey Patrick, correct me if I’m wrong but I’m assuming this is the same feature that you can see in Google, Bing and Yahoo Webmaster Tools, but this plugin allows you to see all of the search engines without the need to log into each account separately? If so thanks a ton, I’m gonna download the new version of the plugin and check it out.
I’m not sure if you use ClickBank or not, but I just downloaded a new plugin extension for Firefox that Brad Callen created, called CB Surge. You can download it for free at http://www.cbsurge.com/download/free-seo-plugin
This give you a “marketability” rating on the different products in the CB Marketplace and also gives analytics data about sales of that product up to a year ago and some other cool features. I hope you or someone else reading this can find it useful.
As always, thanks for the great content you put on here at Blogstorm!
-Jay
Awesome! I’ve been thinking about going with a WP site, but wanted an easier way to track stats.
You could spend all day looking at figures involved in your website. Some are useful and some aren’t but if you learn off of them, then they all are in some way
Tracking crawlers can be good, but what is the aim? Is the plugin able to distinguish good crawlers from spam bots? Then okay….say you see what the crawl rate is, what will you do about it?
Cloudflare seems to give us a lot of those statistics and also doubles as a reverse DNS server while protecting us from major attacks. I think this plugin while a good idea needs to bring more to the table to be worth joining the plugin list on my site.
Great plugin — I actually had been using GWT to track their crawling rates, which required 2 -3 more steps in my routine.
This plugin cuts that time dramatically and allows me to stay within my own admin.
Thanks for keeping it updated
I’ve installed that plugin on Performance Media Blog.
It’s ptretty simple and cool, thanks a lot guys!
This is a nice idea for a plug in but it doesn’t work. Json errors, divide by zero errors and 404 errors. Very buggy. Any plans to fix it?
Robert can you email us some more details? No other reports of bugs.
Installed CrawlRate on a number of blogs today, works really well on one, however on all of the others I am getting the following error:
Open Flash Chart
IO ERROR
Loading test data
Error #2032
Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated.
Well I never! Why isn’t this information available in Google Analytics or Webmaster tools? Great addition to my must have plugin list. Thanks.
Seen this tool pop up everywhere i go!
it is a nifty little tool to have! i have got it installed on multiple blogs and just reading through the comments that its working for everyone.
Thanks for posting
Danny
This is a nice plugin, I never saw anything like this before. I have been using CloudFlare as of late which has a very similar graph showing # of visits, from crawlers, good users, and users labeled as threats. I would suggest checking it out as is has a few more perks than a simple WP plugin.
Sweet, I’ve been wondering how to get at crawl stats easily, this would certainly beat trying to use GWT.
Off to try it now fingers crossed.
Thanks muchly
This plugin looks great. It reminds me of the Google Analytics plugin which has been extremely valuable to me.
Looks a handy plug-in, just downloaded it, looking forward to exploring it!
I love this plugin! Thanks!