Here is a creation from Lizzi Sassman from Google that Martin Splitt from Google shared from his desk. You can see there is a crochet Googlebot sitting on a mini sofa seat holding a coffee. This was shared on Mastodon. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we … Read more
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
Google has added a single line to its Googlebot documentation to say that when Googlebot crawls from within the US, it crawls using the Pacific timezone. Google added this line of text, “When crawling from IP addresses in the US, the timezone of Googlebot is Pacific Time.” This is not new and you all probably … Read more
Google’s Martin Splitt was asked how Googlebot’s crawling and rendering was adapting to the increase in AI generated content. Martin’s answer provided insights into how Google handles AI generated content and the role of quality control. Googlebot Webpage Rendering Webpage rendering is the process of creating the webpage in a browser by downloading the HTML, … Read more
October 28, 2014 | Posted by Rank Ranger Blocking Googlebot from your page may have negative effects on your SEO. Emerging from the old text browser world, Google has announced an update to Googlebot that renders pages as they’re viewed in modern browsers so they’re now instructing that “you should allow Googlebot access … Read more
Google has updated its SafeSearch, ***** content filter, help documentation to say you should not show the age gate prompt to Googlebot. Google wrote, “For content behind a mandatory age gate, we recommend allowing Googlebot to crawl your content without triggering the age gate.” Google wants to ensure Googlebot can see the content behind the … Read more
Google has added a new user agent to the list of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is named Google-InspectionTool and goes under both the Googlebot user agent and also the name Google-InspectionTool. Google added this to the Google crawler help document over here. It says, “Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such … Read more
John Mueller of Google said there is no healthy percentage of traffic you should expect from your Googlebot activity compared to other bot and traffic activity on your site. Meaning you don’t need to worry if Googlebot is taking up 2% of your server resources and not 20% of your server resources. This question was … Read more
Google updated their Search Central Documentation to on verifying Googlebot, adding documentation about user-triggered bot visits, information that was missing from previous Googlebot documentation, which has created confusion for many years, with some publishers blocking the IP ranges of the legitimate visits. Newly Updated Bot Documentation Google added a new documentation that categorizes the three … Read more
Google has added a new crawler to its list of Google Crawlers and user agents, this one is named GoogleOther. It is described as a “generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites.” For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and … Read more
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