Google is working on crawling fewer pages and reducing data consumption. Google previously revealed crawling decisions are dynamic and based on different factors. Improving content quality is vital to ...

If Google suddenly crawls your site a lot, it may indicate problems. Problems could include unnecessary crawling of infinite spaces or hacking. Google's Gary Illyes highlights these issues in a ...

Some sites, hosted on some CDNs (content delivery networks), are experiencing a big spike in server response times for crawling, while seeing a drop in total crawl requests. So technically, the ...

Google posted a public service announcement saying you should disallow Googlebot from crawling your action URLs. Gary Illyes from Google posted on LinkedIn, "You should really disallow crawling of ...

Google's extensive web crawling capabilities, significantly exceeding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Meta ...

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 ...

Google has sued a crawling (data extraction) firm that scrapes its search results. The move is seen as an attempt to prevent data collected through crawling from being used to train rival generative ...

As a marketer, you’ve spent hours adding value to your website. Now imagine a visitor drops by regularly to check what’s new and decide what’s worth showing in Google Search. That visitor? It’s called ...

Google Search did not crawl or index about two million domains hosted on SiteGround for the past two days, but that issue has been resolved. SiteGround cited a “network issue between AWS Global ...