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Google Favicon Crawler Uses Googlebot & Googlebot-Image Token

Google has updated its Google crawler help documentation to specific that the Google Favicon crawler now respects the Googlebot and Googlebot-Image robots rules. Previously, it seemed to just respect its own Google Favicon rules but that was changed or updated a few days ago.
The docs from earlier this year show this:
The revised document shows this:
Dave Smart, where I found this from, said on Twitter “FYI: Looks like the favicon crawler from google now respects Googlebot-Image / Googlebot robots.txt rules, (followed it own, Googlebot favicon, before apparently) so perhaps make sure you’re not blocking it accidentally now.”
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Google Updates Crawl Stats Report Help Documentation

Google has also updated the crawl stats report help documentation last week. Google made a lot of support documentation changes in the past week including product rich results, Googlebot doc, job posting help doc, moving the HTTP status codes doc and also this crawl stats report help document.
You can see this crawl stats help document here and the changes were summed up very nicely by Brodie Clark on Twitter who said:
- Note about robots.txt 404ing (can crawl any URL)
- Using a 12hr – 30 day timeframe for fetching
- Details about homepage usage
He posted the document before and after changes as well:
Brodie wrote, “Heads-up: Google just added some interesting clarifications to their Crawl Stats Report doc.” Nice catch Brodie!
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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