What is website crawling? Website crawling is the process by which search engines discover and index your website’s pages. Crawlers, also known as spiders or robots, follow links on your website and other websites to find new pages. Once a page is found, the crawler will download it and extract the content. This content is […]
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 […]
Being able to get your links discovered, crawled and indexed by Google is important to your SEO, and can ultimately be advantageous because if one URL gets crawled, then more pages can get crawled on your website. In an episode of SEO Office Hours, John Mueller spoke up about whether or not Google used links […]
Do you remember back in the days before we had search engines and the internet when you’d have to consult an encyclopedia in order to learn about the world? Do you remember looking up the phone number of a plumber or other service in the yellow pages? Even then, we had to search through directories […]
Sitemaps are a great tool for any SEO and webmaster. They are a blueprint of your website that can help search engines crawl and index all of your website’s content, as well as tell search engines which pages are on your site are the most important. Although you aren’t REQUIRED to have a sitemap, it […]
There are a lot of times when an SEO crawler finds a fatal error where you need to be sure you take care of it as soon as possible. You might think that everything bad that a crawler finds are automatically bad and they might spell bad news for your website, but there are times […]
In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Tom discusses the SEO concept of crawl budge. Crawl budget is the number of pages that Googlebot crawls and indexes on any given website, and also determines how often the most important page of that site gets crawled and how often an in-depth crawl is executed. Google has only […]
The indexing of your content by Google is determined by their system algorithms that takes into account user demand and quality. But, why does Google removed certain content pieces from its index? Even if you did a bunch of optimizations to your content, it’s still possible that Google will exclude certain pages. This is because […]
With countless crawler warnings, you want to be able to filter out only the important ones….but how? On this episode of Technical Tips, Dr. Pete walks you through his method for identifying the most important site issues so you can fix them with ease!
In this January episode of Google Search News, John Mueller goes over recent developments in the Google Search world. The information in this video includes: 0:00 Intro 01:12 Crawling and indexing overview 01:35 Crawling updates 03:24 Indexing updates 04:34 Learn more about link opportunities 05:50 Structured Data Testing Tool news