You might have heard of website crawling before — you may even have a vague idea of what it’s about — but do you know why...
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...
This week, I posted the big Google Webmaster Report for April; it is an excellent place to catch up quickly on the news. Google’s March 2024...
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...
If you still use AMP on your site, then go to the AMP enhancements report in Google Search Console and filter by “crawl issues.” You may...
Gary Illyes posted a new blog post on the Google Search Central site asking all of you to stop using 403 and 404 server status codes...
According to a recent study by Bing, most websites have XML sitemaps, with the “lastmod” tag being the most critical component of these sitemaps. The “lastmod”...
As you know, Google can now crawl from locations outside of the United States. We know this is rare, it is used in specific situations. But...
Google has added a new section to the crawl budget management help document. The new section is for the If-Modified-Since request header. The section is titled...
Crawling is the first step on any page’s journey to a results page. Search engines must discover your page before evaluating it and deciding where to...