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
