Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about Googlebot crawling and the completeness of the snapshot. The person asking the question received a response that touched on edge cases ...

Google’s Gary Illyes provided an excellent explanation about crawl budget, describing how Googlebot strives to be a “good citizen of the web.” This principle is key to understanding the ...

The internet suffered an 86% surge in general invalid traffic (GIVT) in the second half of 2024, driven by AI scrapers and ...

Normally Googlebot will reduce the amount of crawling from a server if it detects that it’s reaching a certain threshold that’s causing the server to slow down. Googlebot slows the amount of ...

Why we care. Caching may help Google crawl your site more efficiently, which may make for a happier Googlebot. There is no mention of any SEO or ranking benefit to using caching, there is also no ...

Google's John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense ...