Google: News Sites May Have Seen A Decline In GoogleBot Crawling In March

Google’s Matt Cutts tweeted that news related sites, such as this one, may have noticed a drop in the crawl statistics within Google Webmaster Tools.If you did notice that drop, Matt says you do not need to worry. Google News added if-modified-since support in March, which would be the reason for the crawl changes. Matt added that “Google News doing smarter crawling now” and thus being more efficient.

Source:http://searchengineland.com/google-news-sites-may-seen-decline-googlebot-crawling-march-188628