Google is working on crawling fewer pages and reducing data consumption. Google previously revealed crawling decisions are dynamic and based on different factors. Improving content quality is vital to ...

Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly.

Gary Illyes says faceted navigation and action parameters dominate Google’s crawl waste, trapping bots in infinite URLs and ...

If Google suddenly crawls your site a lot, it may indicate problems. Problems could include unnecessary crawling of infinite spaces or hacking. Google's Gary Illyes highlights these issues in a ...

Google updated two of its help documents to clarify how much Googlebot can crawl.

Some sites, hosted on some CDNs (content delivery networks), are experiencing a big spike in server response times for crawling, while seeing a drop in total crawl requests. So technically, the ...

Google posted a public service announcement saying you should disallow Googlebot from crawling your action URLs. Gary Illyes from Google posted on LinkedIn, "You should really disallow crawling of ...

Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their gateway to knowledge, to products, and ...

As expected, Google removed the crawl rate setting tool within Google Search Console. Last November, Google told us they would deprecate the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console ...

They're not that stupid as to announce "I'm a crawler who is ignoring robots.txt" by name. Though to be clear, like most malware they are stupid enough to announce a cut/paste User-Agent that's either ...