{"id":1477,"date":"2020-06-07T21:27:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1477"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:31:42","slug":"why-am-i-getting-a-special-crawl-rate-setting-from-google","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/why-am-i-getting-a-special-crawl-rate-setting-from-google","title":{"rendered":"Why am I getting a special crawl rate setting from Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-crawl-rate-setting-1636413420.png\" alt=\"special crawl rate\" width=\"338\" height=\"229\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Why am I getting a special crawl rate setting from Google?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Google may assign a special\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/48620?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">crawl rate<\/a>\u00a0to sites that are using a CDN service to prevent performance issues for the sites or CDN service. This will not negatively affect your SEO or SERPs. You should only be concerned if you are actually seeing actual crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed with more expert tips and resources by visiting our blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/blog\/\">https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I getting a special crawl rate setting from Google? Google may assign a special\u00a0crawl rate\u00a0to sites that are using a CDN service to prevent performance issues for the sites or CDN service. This will not negatively affect your SEO or SERPs. You should only be concerned if you are actually seeing actual crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1457,1471],"class_list":["post-1477","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-google","kbtag-special-crawl-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1477\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}