Crawler Archives

13 Best SEO Website Crawler and Audit Tools for Enterprise

March 28, 2024 by BTR

Technical SEO is one of the most important aspects of organic search. If your site doesn’t function properly, users will bounce and search engines may experience difficulty when attempting to crawl and index your content.

Google Clarifies the “Google-Extended” Crawler Documentation

February 9, 2024 by BTR

Google recently updated the documentation of its Google-Extended web crawler user agent, reflecting changes in product naming and clarifying the impact on search, which may be a concern for those who choose to block the crawler. The updated documentation offers clearer guidance on controlling content access for use in AI model training. Google-Extended User Agent … Read more

Google Dynamic Search Ad Crawler Now Crawls Every 3 Weeks vs 2 Weeks

February 8, 2024 by BTR

Google has updated its managing crawl budget guide documentation to say that the crawl frequency of the Dynamic Search Ad targets. It use to be every 2 weeks, 14 days, and now it is every 3 weeks, 21 days. The specific section that was updated is under the Handle overcrawling of your site (emergencies) section. … Read more

Google Safety Crawler Google Help Documentation

November 15, 2023 by BTR

Google has updated its help documentation specific to Google Crawlers and added the Google Safety crawler to the list of special case crawlers. This crawler is not new but Google decided to add it because they “received many questions” over the past year about this crawler. Google Safety’s crawler goes under the full user agent … Read more

Google Adds New Documentation For Mystery Crawler

November 14, 2023 by BTR

Google updated the list of their official crawlers by adding the name and information for a relatively unknown crawler for Google Safety. Although Google added official documentation for this crawler the information provided seems to encourage more clarification. Special Case Crawlers Google has several kinds of crawlers (also known as bots and spiders). The different … Read more

Google-Extended Is The New Google Crawler To Block Bard Or Google AI

September 29, 2023 by BTR

Google has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from using your content, you specify so in your robots.txt with the user … Read more

Google Updates Crawler Documentation To Fix A Typo

September 12, 2023 by BTR

Google has fixed a typo in their crawler documentation that inadvertently misidentified one of their crawlers. In general, this is a minor issue but it’s a major issue for SEOs and publishers who depend on the documentation to set firewall rules. Failure to notate the correct data could cause a website to inadvertently block a … Read more

Dozens of big brands have blocked GPTBot, OpenAI’s new web crawler

August 25, 2023 by BTR

At least 69 of the 1,000 most popular websites in the world have blocked GPTBot, the new web crawler OpenAI introduced Aug. 7, according to a new analysis. And the percentage of sites is increasing by about 5% per week, according to AI content and plagiarism service Originality.ai. Why we care. To block or not … Read more

SEO News You Can Use: Introducing GPTBot, OpenAI’s Web Crawler | SEOblog.com

August 14, 2023 by BTR

If there’s one thing most ChatGPT users want, it would be up-to-**** and more accurate artificial intelligence or AI content. Well, OpenAI has been hard at work to make this happen. Just recently, the tech giant released documentation about its own web crawler. Called GPTBot, OpenAI plans to use this crawler to help “AI ****** … Read more

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