Crawl Frequency
How often a bot comes back to a given site or section.
Analogy Mental model
The busy shop that restocks weekly gets visited weekly. The one that has not changed its window display since spring gets visited in spring.
In practice What you actually do
Read Crawl Stats in Search Console for requests per day and per file type, and check whether the trend matches your publishing rhythm. Publishing consistently and earning links from sites that are themselves crawled often are the only two levers that reliably work.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Editing three punctuation marks to look fresh impresses nobody. The engine can tell a substantive change from a cosmetic timestamp, and the cosmetic one buys you noise in your own changelog and nothing else.
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