Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about Googlebot crawling and the completeness of the snapshot. The person asking the question received a response that touched on edge cases and temporal anomalies in crawling. A Googlebot “screenshot” refers to a representation of what a web page looks like to Googlebot. What a web page … Read more
Google Search Central has launched a new series called “Crawling December” to provide insights into how Googlebot crawls and indexes webpages. Google will publish a new article each week this month exploring various aspects of the crawling process that are not often discussed but can significantly impact website crawling. The first post in the series … Read more
Google has updated its crawl budget guidelines, stressing the need to maintain consistent link structures between mobile and desktop websites. Large websites must ensure mobile versions contain all desktop links or risk slower page discovery. The update mainly impacts sites with over 10,000 pages or those experiencing indexing issues. Link structure consistency across mobile and … Read more
Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Michal in Bratislava, who asks: “I have a client who has a website with filters based on a map locations. When the visitor makes a move on the map, a new URL with filters is created. They are not in the sitemap. However, there are over 700,000 URLs … Read more
Crawl budget is a vital SEO concept for large websites with millions of pages or medium-sized websites with a few thousand pages that change daily. An example of a website with millions of pages would be eBay.com, and websites with tens of thousands of pages that update frequently would be user reviews and rating websites … Read more
Crawl budget is a vital SEO concept for large websites with millions of pages or medium-sized websites with a few thousand pages that change daily. An example of a website with millions of pages would be eBay.com, and websites with tens of thousands of pages that update frequently would be user reviews and rating websites … 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
Gary Illyes, Analyst at Google, has highlighted a major issue for crawlers: URL parameters. During a recent episode of Google’s Search Off The Record podcast, Illyes explained how parameters can create endless URLs for a single page, causing crawl inefficiencies. Illyes covered the technical aspects, SEO impact, and potential solutions. He also discussed Google’s past … Read more
Someone on Reddit posted a question about their “crawl budget” issue and asked if a large number of 301 redirects to 410 error responses were causing Googlebot to exhaust their crawl budget. Google’s John Mueller offered a reason to explain why the Redditor may be experiencing a lackluster crawl pattern and clarified a point about … Read more
Google announced that it is sunsetting the search console crawl rate limiter tool, scheduled to be removed on January 8, 2024, citing improvements to crawling that has essentially made it unnecessary. Search Console Crawl Rate Limiter Tool The crawl rate limiter tool was introduced to search console fifteen years ago in 2008. The purpose of … Read more
The Internet is an ever-evolving virtual universe with over 1.1 billion websites. Do you think that Google can crawl every website in the world? Even with all the resources, money, and data centers that Google has, it cannot even crawl the entire web – nor does it want to. What Is Crawl Budget, And Is … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered whether Google would use links in structured data for crawling. Getting links discovered, crawled, and then indexed is vital to SEO, so any available advantage for getting more pages crawled would be helpful. What Does Google Use Links For In Structured Data? The person asking the question wants to know if … Read more
