Links to Increase Crawl Rate?

[DunderMannen]

So I'm getting a link here and there throughout the months, but I can't go too ham on guest posts and that because my sites are relatively new and budget is limited.

I want to increase crawl rate on my sites only, the powerful links will come over time anyway and the sites rank without them. Sites are in a foreign language, that's why I'm asking if stuff like social media links and profile links is a good idea?

 

[Ryuzaki]

I'd ask, as a side question, why you want to increase your crawl rate?

For sure, creating more entry paths (links & social signals) into your site for spiders to find will help. Links also serves to move your pages up to a higher page rank metric score, which increases crawl rates big time.

The biggest and main one would be to make sure you submit your sitemap or sitemaps into Google Search Console so they have a list of your pages and know when they were updated or added to the sitemap.

And finally, one that people tend to overlook is technical debt. Is your page lightweight? Is it fast to load? How long do they have to wait around to render javascript? Are they encountering a ton of redirects you didn't bother fixing when you went from http to https? All of this kind of stuff costs Google a lot of money and time. The better experience you offer their bots, the more crawl budget you'll be allocated AND your current budget will be used more efficiently.

 

[DunderMannen]

I'd ask, as a side question, why you want to increase your crawl rate?

For sure, creating more entry paths (links & social signals) into your site for spiders to find will help. Links also serves to move your pages up to a higher page rank metric score, which increases crawl rates big time.

The biggest and main one would be to make sure you submit your sitemap or sitemaps into Google Search Console so they have a list of your pages and know when they were updated or added to the sitemap.

And finally, one that people tend to overlook is technical debt. Is your page lightweight? Is it fast to load? How long do they have to wait around to render javascript? Are they encountering a ton of redirects you didn't bother fixing when you went from http to https? All of this kind of stuff costs Google a lot of money and time. The better experience you offer their bots, the more crawl budget you'll be allocated AND your current budget will be used more efficiently.

I'm not a noob hehe, the on-page is sorted. Why I want increased crawl rate is to index pages quicker, takes a month+ now and the content is good quality... Pagespeed on sites is 100/100.

I'll build some basic social profiles to all sites and trying to land a couple more links I guess.