Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google...
With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol?...
Google’s John Mueller said again that its quality updates, like core updates and the others in the family, can not just impact the ranking of a...
In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and...
Google’s John Mueller confirmed that GoogleBot will crawl and pick up on URL patterns that simply do not work on your site. I mean, we have...
Google’s John Mueller was asked if a spike in crawler activity would be a sign that the helpful content update is rolling out. John said no,...
Googlebot is an automatic and always-on web crawling system that keeps Google’s index refreshed. The website worldwidewebsize.com estimates Google’s index to be more than 62 billion...
Crawling enterprise sites has all the complexities of any normal crawl plus several additional factors that need to be considered before beginning the crawl. The following...
At the Google NYC SEO Meetup Lily Ray mentioned that when it comes to interviewing new employees for the Amsive Digital SEO team, she asks a...
For the most part, bots and spiders are relatively harmless. You want Google’s bot, for example, to crawl and index your website. However, bots and spiders...