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 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
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
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
