First add a table called wp_googlebot with a column called googlebotdate

then add these 2 functions to your functions.php file:

function googlebotechoit() {
global $wpdb;
$googlebot = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT googlebotdate FROM wp_googlebot” );
return sprintf(’Googlebot visited this page ‘.$googlebot);
}

function googlebotit() {
global $wpdb;
$googledatea = date(’l jS \of F Y h:i:s A’);
$wpdb->query( “UPDATE wp_googlebot SET googlebotdate = ‘$googledatea’” );
}

add this to header.php after the tag

<?php $useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
if ($useragent = “Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)”) {
echo googlebotit();
}

and this where you want it to show up

http://www.kitmobley.com/blogs/how-to-show-the-last-time-the-googlebot-visited-your-wordpress-site/

You are going to have to be more specific with your question. How to make what faster? XML sitemaps? Google’s bots? Getting indexed by Google? Page Rank updates?

Thanks for a great blog