In a significant update from Google’s Search Relations team, the longstanding myths surrounding the concept of a “crawl budget” have been addressed, offering clarity to SEO professionals and website owners alike. This revelation emphasizes the importance of content quality over quantity, reshaping strategies for improving website visibility in Google’s search results. Clarifying the crawl budget … Read more
When it comes to crawl budget and Google not crawling your site too much or too little, Google takes into account all Googlebot activity across all verticals. So that includes crawling for web search, Merchant Center, ads, and all the various crawling activities. Google’s John Mueller was asked by Christian Radny, “Does merchant center crawling … Read more
Martin Splitt from Google posted a one-line question asking, “Should we do something to explain the crawl stats report in GSC?” This was posted on Mastodon, which has a small audience, but the responses were pretty good. It obviously makes you think, well, maybe Google will add more detail, or help documentation, around the crawl … Read more
Google gives every hostname its own allocated crawl budget. So that means each domain, subdomain, etc has its own unique crawl budget. This was brought up in the comments are in a LinkedIn post where Tony McCreath asked a Google crawl budget questions related to crawling a page on domain A that loads a resource … Read more
This week, I posted the big Google Webmaster Report for April; it is an excellent place to catch up quickly on the news. Google’s March 2024 core update had some volatility this week, and it is still rolling out. There are still no helpful content update victims who recovered, but there are core update recoveries. … Read more
Gary Illyes from Google posted on LinkedIn that his mission this year is to “figure out how to crawl even less, and have fewer bytes on wire.” He added that Googlebot should “be more intelligent about caching and internal cache sharing among user agents, and we should have fewer bytes on wire.” He added, “Decreasing … Read more
Google doesn’t always spider every page on a site instantly. Sometimes, it can take weeks. This might get in the way of your SEO efforts. Your newly optimized landing page might not get indexed. At that point, it’s time to optimize your crawl budget. In this article, we’ll discuss what a ‘crawl budget’ is and what … Read more
Someone on Reddit posted a question about their “crawl budget” issue and asked if a large number of 301 redirects to 410 error responses were causing Googlebot to exhaust their crawl budget. Google’s John Mueller offered a reason to explain why the Redditor may be experiencing a lackluster crawl pattern and clarified a point about … Read more
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 on January 8, 2024. January 8th came and went and so did the crawl rate limiter with it. Google said this feature is no … Read more
Google has finally done away with the crawl rate setting within the legacy Google Search Console. It now redirects to the blog post about the feature going away. A couple of months ago, Google told us the crawl rate setting is going away. And it did. The legacy feature to control how fast Google crawls … Read more
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