Demystifying Google’s Web Crawling: The Role of Googlebot in 2024 – Vizion Interactive

Demystifying Google’s Web Crawling: The Role of Googlebot in 2024 – Vizion Interactive

Reading Time: 11 minutes As the predominant web crawler accounting for nearly 29% of bot hits, Googlebot plays a crucial role in determining how users access information online.  By continuously scanning over millions of domains, Googlebot helps Google’s algorithms understand the vast landscape of the internet and maintain its dominance in search with over 92% … Read more

Crawl Budget Goes Across All Googlebot Crawling, Not Just Google Web Search

Crawl Budget Goes Across All Googlebot Crawling, Not Just Google Web Search

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

Google’s Crawling Priorities: Insights From Analyst Gary Illyes

Google’s Crawling Priorities: Insights From Analyst Gary Illyes

In a recent statement on LinkedIn, Google Analyst Gary Illyes shared his mission for the year: to figure out how to crawl the web even less. This comes on the heels of a Reddit post discussing the perception that Google is crawling less than in previous years. While Illyes clarifies that Google is crawling roughly … Read more

Google Says Disallowing UTM Parameters In URLs Won’t Help With Crawling Or Ranking

Google Says Disallowing UTM Parameters In URLs Won’t Help With Crawling Or Ranking

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that disallowing URLs with UTM parameters in them won’t help you to improve crawling or rating with Google Search. He added that a site should try to keep its internal URLs clean and consistent, but over time, the canonical tags should help with external links that carry UTM parameters … Read more

Google Releases New ‘How Search Works’ Episode On Crawling

Google Releases New ‘How Search Works’ Episode On Crawling

Google has published a fresh installment of its educational video series “How Search Works,” explaining how its search engine discovers and accesses web pages through crawling. Google Engineer Details Crawling Process In the seven-minute episode hosted by Google Analyst Gary Illyes, the company provides an in-depth look at the technical aspects of how Googlebot—the software … Read more

3 reasons not to block GPTBot from crawling your site

3 reasons not to block GPTBot from crawling your site

The next phase in ChatGPT’s meteoric rise is the adoption of GPTBot. This new iteration of OpenAI’s technology involves crawling webpages to deepen the output ChatGPT can provide.  AI improvement seems positive, but it’s not so clear-cut. Legal and ethical issues surround the technology. GPTBot’s arrival has highlighted these concerns, as many major brands are … Read more

Google Drops Favicon User Agent & Requires Googlebot-Image and Googlebot Crawling

Google Drops Favicon User Agent & Requires Googlebot-Image and Googlebot Crawling

Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google to show your favicon you must allow both Googlebot-Image and Googlebot to crawl your pages. Here is what changed in the favicon documentation – you can also compare yourself … Read more

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