Tucked away in the Settings section of Google Search Console is a report few SEO professionals discuss, but I like to monitor. These reports are known as Crawl Stats. Here, you’ll find an interesting set of metrics on Googlebot crawl activity. These metrics are especially useful for websites with thousands or millions of pages. Googlebot … Read more
Back in mid-June, I noticed that Google was not showing many of my images in Google Search and Discover and also some readers were pointing it out to me. So I used the handy Google Search Console URL Inspection tool to find out those S3 URLs I was using to host my images were blocking … Read more
What Is Googlebot? Googlebot is the main program Google uses to automatically crawl (or visit) webpages. And discover what’s on them. As Google’s main website crawler, its purpose is to keep Google’s vast database of content, known as the index, up to ****. Because the more current and comprehensive this index is, the better and … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman discussed three factors that trigger increased Googlebot crawling. While they downplayed the need for constant crawling, they acknowledged there a ways to encourage Googlebot to revisit a website. 1. Impact of High-Quality Content on Crawling Frequency One of the things they talked about was the quality of a website. … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes reveals Googlebot collects links instead of “following” them, contradicting official documentation. Googlebot collects links rather than following them in real-time. Gary Illyes shared this information in Google’s ‘Search Off The Record’ podcast. Google’s documentation contradicts the actual crawler behavior. Source link : Searchenginejournal.com
Google has added two new crawlers to the Googlebot family of web crawlers: GoogleOther-Image GoogleOther-Video Google said these two new crawlers are versions of GoogleOther optimized for fetching image and video bytes. GoogleOther was added in April 2023 to be used internally by Google teams to crawl the public web and free up some resources … Read more
Google is now sharing the Googlebot IP ranges for the User-triggered fetchers. User-triggered fetchers are from Google tools and product functions where the end user triggers a fetch. Google said, “Added an additional list of IP addresses for fetchers that are controlled by Google products, as opposed to, for example, a user controlled Apps Script. … Read more
Reading Time: 11 minutes As the predominant web crawler accounting for nearly 29% of bot hits, Googlebot plays a crucial role in determining how users access information online. By continuously scanning over millions of domains, Googlebot helps Google’s algorithms understand the vast landscape of the internet and maintain its dominance in search with over 92% … Read more
When it comes to crawl budget and Google not crawling your site too much or too little, Google takes into account all Googlebot activity across all verticals. So that includes crawling for web search, Merchant Center, ads, and all the various crawling activities. Google’s John Mueller was asked by Christian Radny, “Does merchant center crawling … Read more
This week, I posted the big Google Webmaster Report for April; it is an excellent place to catch up quickly on the news. Google’s March 2024 core update had some volatility this week, and it is still rolling out. There are still no helpful content update victims who recovered, but there are core update recoveries. … Read more
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