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 ...

Google's Gary Illyes says sudden crawling spikes may signal hacked sites or other issues. If Google suddenly crawls your site a lot, it may indicate problems. Problems could include unnecessary ...

Cloudflare data shows the top AI labs are strip-mining the web, and it's getting worse not better.

Google has slightly updated its Google crawlers and fetchers documentation to say that it will pick the protocol, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, that "provides the best crawling performance" for Googlebot. In ...

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 ...

Google has sued a crawling (data extraction) firm that scrapes its search results. The move is seen as an attempt to prevent data collected through crawling from being used to train rival generative ...

As a marketer, you’ve spent hours adding value to your website. Now imagine a visitor drops by regularly to check what’s new and decide what’s worth showing in Google Search. That visitor? It’s called ...

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 ...