How to Use Chrome to View a Website as Googlebot
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Google Warns: Beware Of Fake Googlebot Traffic
Google’s Developer Advocate, Martin Splitt, warns website owners to be cautious of traffic that appears to come from Googlebot. Many requests pretending to be Googlebot are actually from third-party scrapers. He shared this in the latest episode of Google’s SEO Made Easy series, emphasizing that “not everyone who claims to be Googlebot actually is Googlebot.” … Read more
Google Confirms 3 Ways To Make Googlebot Crawl 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
Does Googlebot Really “Follow” Links?
Google’s Gary Illyes reveals Googlebot collects links instead of “following” them, contradicting official documentation. Googlebot collects links rather than following them in real-time. Gary Illyes shared this information in Google’s ‘Search Off The Record’ podcast. Google’s documentation contradicts the actual crawler behavior. Source link
Google On How Googlebot Handles AI Generated Content
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
Google Updates Googlebot Verification Documentation
Google updated their Search Central Documentation to on verifying Googlebot, adding documentation about user-triggered bot visits, information that was missing from previous Googlebot documentation, which has created confusion for many years, with some publishers blocking the IP ranges of the legitimate visits. Newly Updated Bot Documentation Google added a new documentation that categorizes the three … Read more
Googlebot Crawls & Indexes First 15 MB HTML Content
An update to Googlebot’s help document contains confirmation that it will crawl the first 15 MB of a webpage and anything after this cutoff will not be included in rankings calculations. Google specifies in the help document: “Any resources referenced in the HTML such as images, videos, CSS and JavaScript are fetched separately. After the … Read more
Site Dependence On JavaScript A Problem For Googlebot?
In a recent Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout, a question was submitted to Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller asking if it’s a bad for a website to be dependent on JavaScript for basic functionality. Might this have a negative effect on Googlebot when it comes to crawling and indexing? Mueller observed that it’s probably … Read more
