Crawl rate - Google webmaster tools

Had a look in Google webmaster tools today (been a while since I last looked) and found 'Crawl rate' under 'Setting' (last time I looked this was grayed out).

So I've put the crawl rate up 100% too 1 request every second (rather than 1 every 2 seconds which is default). I'm guesssing results should start appearing twice as fast now, right?

Obviously I'll be keeping an eye on server resources, but if it is negligiable would a higher crawl rate be preferable?

neato. mine has the new tool too.

i was default at 1/1 when i opened it up.

i bumped mine to 2.0/.5 and we'll see what happens.

Hi,

I have my forum at domain.com/forum and my sitemap at domain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz

Because of this i can't use this feature since the sitemap isn't in the domain root (domain.com)

What should I do? Should I rewite domain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz to domain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz?

I test it with this rule and this is the site map index:

Code:

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

The site maps are shown as follow:

Code:

<sitemapindex xsi:schemaLocation="             http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9             http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/09/siteindex.xsd">
−
<sitemap>
−
<loc>
http://www.portaldasviagens.com/forum/sitemap_1.xml.gz
</loc>
<lastmod>2009-01-06T02:08:28+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Can this be a problem? some help will be appreciated

don't think this has anything to do with sitemaps

Well, If I add a site "domain.com" it tells me that sitemap can't be located at "domain.com/forum/sitemap_index.xml.gz" only at "domain.com/sitemap_index.xml.gz"

If i submit "domain.com/forum/" everything is ok, but then it says "Crawl rate Setting is restricted to root level domains only"

What should I do?

Ok .. I'v tested again and it's working.
Maybe my fault.

Should I delete the old one?

I'd like to hear more about this and what it does before messing with any of the settings but I did see it in there yesterday.