What is crawling? Crawling is the process where Google deploys an web crawler, or internet bot, to publicly available web pages to “crawl” or read a page. When this happens, it downloads all the text, images, and videos found on the page. As crawlers or spiders visit these websites, they utilize the links on those …
Robotst.txt are a wonderful tool that you can use to instruct search engine crawlers how you would want it to crawl your website. They are used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google. To keep a web page out of Google, …
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In case you weren’t in the know, robots.txt may be a small part of SEO, but it’s still important for your website. They tell the search engines which pages to access and index on your website on which pages not to. Not only that, robots.txt files are great for keeping the search engines from accessing …
In this Google Search Central episode of Search Off the Record, Gary, Lizzi, and Martin from the Google Search team are joined by special guest David Price, a Product Counsel for Google. They discuss human initiated crawl requests vs. bot initiated crawl requests, the robots.txt file, and more!
A new crawl stats report has been launched by Google for Search Console. The company says that this new report will be easier for Search Console users to find issues with Google crawling. Here is what’s new: Total number of requests grouped by response code, crawled file type, crawl purpose, and Googlebot type. Detailed information …
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Last week, Bing announced that it has added a robots.txt tester, which can be found in its Webmaster Tools. The tester can help SEOs highlight issues that could stop Bing from optimal crawling. As a webmaster, you can submit a URL to the tool in order to check the robots.txt file to see if it …
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A new feature has been added to the new Bing Webmaster Tools – a robots.txt tester. You can take the tester for a ride over here. This feature was added by Bing back in 2009, but was dropped. Now, it has officially returned. What does the Tester do? According to Bing, it will analyze Webmaster’s …
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According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, a Google crawler has been adding products to e-commerce site shopping carts. Apparently, there have been complaints by sellers about a serial cart abandoner named John Smith. But it turns out that the abandoner is actually a Google bot. A spokesperson from Google said that i …
“Often, I see JavaScript being blamed when the problem is something else,” search developer advocate at Google,Martin Splitt, cited as the underlying issue behind many of the site errors he has run across. During the crawling and indexing session of Live with Search Engine Land, Splitt talked about the most typical JavaScript-related issues that can hurt …
The groundwork for search engines’ ability to rank well is the crawling and indexing processes of websites. Crawling and indexing are usually overlooked or misunderstood, despite its importance of fundamental aspects. During the crawling and indexing session of Live with Search Engine Land, Martin Splitt, search developer advocate at Google, explained these two processes using …
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