What Is Crawl Budget and Why It Matters for SEO
What Is Crawl Budget and How Does It Impact Your SEO Performance There are currently about 111 billion websites in the world ...
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Google Says Temporal Anomalies Affect Googlebot Crawl
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: Don't Dynamically Update Robots.txt File Multiple Times Per Day
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 ...
AI Search Optimization: Make Your Structured Data Accessible
An investigation reveals AI crawlers miss JavaScript-injected structured data. Use server-side rendering or static HTML to ...
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The internet suffered an 86% surge in general invalid traffic (GIVT) in the second half of 2024, driven by AI scrapers and ...
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README.md
Curated lists of IP addresses/whitelists of good bots and crawlers. Includes GoogleBot, BingBot, DuckDuckBot, etc. All IP-Lists are in the CIDR-Notation and can be used as whitelists in your webserver ...
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Google Robots.txt Parser and Matcher Library
The library is slightly modified (i.e. some internal headers and equivalent symbols) production code used by Googlebot, Google's crawler, to determine which URLs it may access based on rules provided ...