Google's Search Relations team provides insights into controlling Googlebot's interactions with webpages on the latest 'Search Off The Record' podcast. You can't block Googlebot from crawling specific ...

Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Google announced that starting in December Google will update Google’s user agent to represent the version of Chrome that GoogleBot is running. It is important to update any code you may have that may ...

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 ...

Google announced it is changing the user agent name of the current GoogleBot in December. We knew this was coming when Google launched the new Evergreen GoogleBot. Google didn't change the user agent ...

Google updated their Googlebot Developers Support Page to reflect that Google is now able to try downloading pages via the latest HTTP/2 protocol. This is effective November 2020. The Googlebot ...

Google operates a crawler 'Googlebot' that mechanically acquires documents and images on the web and creates a database in order to grasp the world's websites that exist innumerably. Googlebot ...

Google announced that starting in November 2020 it may begin to crawl some sites over HTTP/2. Google wrote "today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over ...

Most businesses live or die on Google search rankings. If you can’t crack the top few results, it’s almost impossible to consistently drive organic traffic to your site. But how does Google decide ...

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