Gary Illyes from Google posted on LinkedIn that his mission this year is to “figure out how to crawl even less, and have fewer bytes on wire.” He added that Googlebot should “be more intelligent about caching and internal cache sharing among user agents, and we should have fewer bytes on wire.” He added, “Decreasing … Read more
As expected, Google removed the crawl rate setting tool within Google Search Console. Last November, Google told us they would deprecate the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console on January 8, 2024. January 8th came and went and so did the crawl rate limiter with it. Google said this feature is no … Read more
Ever wondered what would happen if you prevented Google from crawling your website for a few weeks? Technical SEO expert Kristina Azarenko has published the results of such an experiment. Six surprising things that happened. What happened when Googlebot couldn’t crawl Azarenko’s site from Oct 5 to Nov. 7: Favicon was removed from Google Search … Read more
The legacy feature to control how fast Google crawls your website is going away on January 8, 2024. It is a feature that launched 15 years ago but Google never migrated it to the new version of Search Console. Gary Illyes from Google said, “with the improvements we’ve made to our crawling logic and other … Read more
Google is deprecating the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console on January 8, 2024. Google said this feature is no longer useful because Google said it has improved its “crawling logic and other tools available to publishers.” What is the crawl rate limiter. It is a tool within the legacy version of … Read more
Here is a creation from Lizzi Sassman from Google that Martin Splitt from Google shared from his desk. You can see there is a crochet Googlebot sitting on a mini sofa seat holding a coffee. This was shared on Mastodon. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we … Read more
Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google to show your favicon you must allow both Googlebot-Image and Googlebot to crawl your pages. Here is what changed in the favicon documentation – you can also compare yourself … Read more
Google has added a single line to its Googlebot documentation to say that when Googlebot crawls from within the US, it crawls using the Pacific timezone. Google added this line of text, “When crawling from IP addresses in the US, the timezone of Googlebot is Pacific Time.” This is not new and you all probably … Read more
Google’s Martin Splitt was asked how Googlebot’s crawling and rendering was adapting to the increase in AI generated content. Martin’s answer provided insights into how Google handles AI generated content and the role of quality control. Googlebot Webpage Rendering Webpage rendering is the process of creating the webpage in a browser by downloading the HTML, … Read more
October 28, 2014 | Posted by Rank Ranger Blocking Googlebot from your page may have negative effects on your SEO. Emerging from the old text browser world, Google has announced an update to Googlebot that renders pages as they’re viewed in modern browsers so they’re now instructing that “you should allow Googlebot access … Read more
421
229
714
826
543