Google Crawls Robots.txt Files Daily

Sep 3, 2009 - 8:42 am 2 by

JohnMu from Google posted in a Google Webmaster Help thread that Google typically crawls a site's robots.txt file on a daily basis. This is the first time (at least that I can remember) I have seen a Googler make a statement on the crawl frequency of robots.txt files.

JohnMu said:

We usually only check the robots.txt file once a day for most sites, so I assume you were just still seeing the version that we fetched yesterday.

I have not validated this with my sites log files, but that is not the point. The point is a Googler said, on a general level, how often Googlebot will refetch a site's robots.txt file.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.

 

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