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SEOMeter.com is a website, which I have discovered recently when I was surfing the internet. I find this seo tool pretty useful since it unveils Google’s crawl rate. Now, I’ve decided to bring it to your attention and tell you what I honestly think about it.

First, let’s start off with the owner’s description of the service:

Free online SEO tools that allow webmasters to monitor Google’s crawl rate and cache history over time.

How does it work?
It tracks your website’s crawl rate by getting its cache from Google. (cache: yoursite.com) It’s worth mentioning that the service only measures Google’s crawl rate because only Google provides free access to this kind of information. Then it stores the information in its database and displays it when needed.

So what?
Well, crawl cycle can tell you a lot about a particular website. For example, the more often the website is crawled by Google:

• The more important the website is to Google.
• The more Google ‘trusts’ that website.
• The faster a link will be recognized by Google.

What I like:

• Cool, sleek web 2.0 design, which provides users with unique, long-lasting browsing experience.
• The idea of including 20 most often crawled websites.
• List of most often crawled web directories.
• Nice graphs, which actually help you interpret the information better, unlike numbers.
• Ability to compare sites, so you know where it’s more efficient and effective to advertise.
• Company’s Blog, so you understand what’s going on at SEO Meter.

What I dislike:

• Small database of sites, which I am sure will be expanded in the near future.
• Small variety of crawling statistics banners (like 88×35 and 468×60).
• Lack of ability to post crawling statistics graphs on a website (except a screenshot).
• Small maximum number of websites to compare (only 3 websites).

In conclusion, I see that SEO Meter has gotten a bright future as webmasters become more and more reliable on search engine traffic. I really like it and will use it whenever I start any advertising campaign. Now, I want to know what you think about it. Do you like it?