Google’s John Mueller answered whether Google would use links in structured data for crawling. Getting links discovered, crawled, and then indexed is vital to SEO, so any available advantage for ...

Large websites must ensure mobile versions contain all desktop links or risk slower page discovery. The update mainly impacts sites with over 10,000 pages or those experiencing indexing issues. Link ...

Tucked away in the Settings section of Google Search Console is a report few SEO professionals discuss, but I like to monitor. These reports are known as Crawl Stats. Here, you’ll find an interesting ...

Google has a new help document on how Google's crawlers work.

Gary Illyes from Google posted on LinkedIn that his mission this year is to "figure out how to crawl even less, and have fewer bytes on wire." He added that Googlebot should "be more intelligent about ...

Google has added a new section to the crawl budget management help document. The new section is for the If-Modified-Since request header. The section is titled "Specify content changes with HTTP ...

Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their gateway to knowledge, to products, and ...

Google has launched GoogleOther, a new web crawler that various internal teams within the company will use to crawl the public web. It is unclear whether Google plans to use GoogleOther for Bard, its ...