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 Bandwidth
Author:Elastic
Date:Wednesday, 26th Sep 2007 14:16
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

A quick question.

Does the ammount of bandwidth you buy on a server affect the amount of traffic google allows to your site?...

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 Re: Bandwidth
Author:PrincessPeach
Date:Wednesday, 26th Sep 2007 15:46
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Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

No relationship between visitor traffic sent to your site from google (should google decide or not to list your site) and bandwidth

But the more popular your site becomes the more often google bot crawls it, likewise all the scraper sites and bots from yahoo, ask, msn etc etc - In all they are all eating at your bandwidth hence your bandwith requirement will increase the more often your site is spidered.

Hope that helps

PP

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 Re: Bandwidth
Author:Elastic
Date:Wednesday, 26th Sep 2007 16:22
Views:113 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

Thank's PrincessPeach,

I currently pay fo 3Gb on a shared server, this month I am sitting at 3.6Gb so far and a few days to go.. site been up a couple of years out of the sandbox but still beiing held back..

Some days keyword phrases are there some days they are not no pattern on which server I'm sitting on..

Just thought Google maybe restricting due to our elasticated bandwidth..

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 Re: Bandwidth
Author:PrincessPeach
Date:Wednesday, 26th Sep 2007 17:15
Views:114 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

No - Not a chance

But Google is still doing some kind of update still because the serps are all ove rthe place on a daily basis at the moment

Good Luck

PP

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 Re: Bandwidth
Author:Kelly
Date:Thursday, 27th Sep 2007 14:07
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

If bandwidth does not affect you with Google why would you ever need to pay for increased bandwidth?....

What sort of site are you running to use so much bandwidth Elastic I only use about 600kb of my 5Gb package and I thought my site was busy..

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 Re: Bandwidth
Author:Bob
Date:Friday, 19th Oct 2007 21:41
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URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

I thought bandwidth was to do with the amount of times your site gets viewed and the size of your pages so visits x Page size = bandwidth consumption.

I wouldn;t have thought this would have any impact on google rankings or traffic.

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 Re: Bandwidth
Author:Sam Michel
Date:Sunday, 25th Nov 2007 14:35
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Category:Other
URL:http://web.ukrecruiter.co.uk/forum/Forum/read.php?i=31089

I'm no SEO expert, but it's worth making sure that Google's spider (and those from the other search engines) can index your site. Chances are a decent-sized chunk of your traffic if coming from Google et al, especially if you're SEO is good.

The more Google sees your content updated, the more it'll come back to make sure it's index is up-to-date. If you run a jobs board or any site with a reasonable amount of regularly updated information this will begin to stack up to quite a bit of transfer bandwidth.

Our whole site is indexed roughly twice/week by Google which accounts for a decent chunk of traffic. Add in the other search engines and you're talking some proper Gbs! Definitely worth it though.

You can always tinker with your robots.txt file to limit which sections of your website are being indexed, if you'd like to trim the amount of data consumed.

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