If Google suddenly crawls your site a lot, it may indicate problems. Problems could include unnecessary crawling of infinite spaces or hacking. Google's Gary Illyes highlights these issues in a ...

Google has slightly updated its Google crawlers and fetchers documentation to say that it will pick the protocol, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, that "provides the best crawling performance" for Googlebot. In ...

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, ...

Crawl budget is a common source of concern and confusion in SEO. This guide will explain everything you need to know about crawl budget and how it may impact your technical SEO efforts in 2025. Google ...

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 ...

Google spoke about its year-end report on the crawling challenges Google faced in 2025 when crawling and indexing the web for Google Search. The biggest challenges include faceted navigation and ...

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a service that caches a web page and displays it from a data center that’s closest to the browser requesting that web page. Caching a web page means that the CDN ...

Google’s crawl stats report is missing a single day of crawl data, which seems to be impacting all sites within Google Search Console. Google has not yet confirmed the issue but it seems to be ...

They're not that stupid as to announce "I'm a crawler who is ignoring robots.txt" by name. Though to be clear, like most malware they are stupid enough to announce a cut/paste User-Agent that's either ...