The web crawler fails requests that exceed the following network timeouts:

Reduce the number of redirects for the page. The web crawler does not follow redirect chains longer than. Increasing the limit may increase crawl durations and resource consumption, and could reduce crawl stability. Or, increase the limit for your deployment. The web crawler does not parse HTTP responses larger than _size.limit. If a page contains a nofollow robots meta tag, the web crawler will not follows links from that page. Remove the nofollow link to allow content discovery. The web crawler does not follow nofollow links. See Content discovery for an explanation of how the web crawler discovers content.Īdd links to the content from other content that the web crawler has already discovered, or explicitly add the URL as an entry point or within a sitemap. The web crawler cannot find pages that have no incoming links, unless you provide the path as an entry point. Manage crawl rules and robots.txt files for each domain to ensure paths are allowed. The web crawler does not follow links whose paths are disallowed by a domain’s crawl rules or robots.txt directives. Manage domains for your crawl to add any missing domains. I hope you find these word crawls as helpful and intriguing as I have.The web crawler does not follow links that go outside the domains configured for each crawl. Yeah, if you’re going to slay this beast of NaNoWriMo mythology, you’ll need to ignore your keyboard’s backspace for sure. To give you an idea of exactly how difficult this is, the challenge got its name because the first (recorded) time anyone beat the challenge, ‘fifty’, ‘headed’, and ‘hydra’ were the only words they had spelled correctly. If you’re looking for an extra-difficult challenge, how about slaying the Fifty Headed Hydra? The challenge is to write 500 words in 5 minutes, which is just as hard as it sounds. If you don’t have a physical set nearby, you can use this one from, where you can choose the number of dice being rolled, or simply type in “roll d#” with the # being the number of sides (By the way, did you know Bing has a rewards program that PAYS you to use their search engine? It’s awesome!). Speaking of dice, many of these crawls have sections that require you to roll them. Dice Bag Mini Crawl (Another crawl that doesn’t require a huge time commitment).Halloween Crawl (The holiday, not the movie).Customizable Tarot/ Playing Card Word Crawl.Never Have I Ever Word Sprints (Bonus: Not a huge time commitment).Here’s a list of the ones I really want to try before the month is over, time willing:

You can find dozens and dozens of word crawls here in the Word Wars, Prompts, and Sprints Thread in the NaNoWriMo forum. I must admit that I’ve been spacing that Harry Potter word crawl out over a couple days. Most of these require a healthy chunk of time (some more than others), so it’s probably best to save them for a day when you have a few consecutive hours to devote to writing. Some of them are even designed to help you get real work done while still writing, like this housework one and this one about fitting in your homework. A lot of them are fandom-based – like this Doctor Who one and the Harry Potter one I’m doing right now. More specifically, I would describe them as role-playing writing games that incorporate word sprints, word wars, and other writing challenges. If you, like a slightly younger version of myself, have no idea what word crawls are, they’re basically pure awesomeness that has the potential to help you grow your word count exponentially. Whether you’re exactly on target, behind, or finished, I wanted to share something that I discovered just yesterday that may be immensely helpful for you: Word Crawls! If you’re sticking to the classic schedule of 1667 words a day, then by the time you go to bed tonight you should have 33,240 words under your belt. We’re exactly two thirds of the way through NaNoWriMo 2015.

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