Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly.

Gary Illyes says faceted navigation and action parameters dominate Google’s crawl waste, trapping bots in infinite URLs and ...

Google updated two of its help documents to clarify how much Googlebot can crawl.

Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl budget. WooCommerce fixed it. Other plugins haven't.

Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits that apply to all crawlers ...

Gary Illyes, along with Martin Splitt, of Google posted a podcast explaining the top crawling challenges Google noticed amongst its 2025 year of crawling. The top challenges Google had with crawling ...

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 ...

As a marketer, you’ve spent hours adding value to your website. Now imagine a visitor drops by regularly to check what’s new and decide what’s worth showing in Google Search. That visitor? It’s called ...

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 ...