Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding ...

Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation, mostly breaking out the single-page document into multiple pages and documents. But Google also expanded what ...

Google has completely reorganized its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation. It used to be all on one page and now it is in several pages. Most of the changes were just moving content ...

Google broke down the general timing it takes for various Google Search tasks take, both in terms of average time and longest time.

Approved forums and social platforms can send content and interaction signals through a separate pipeline. Here's who can ...

From September 30 to October 2, 2026, "Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe" was held in Barcelona. It is reported that ...

Google may be crawling the web with a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named GoogleProducer. This useragent is not listed on the official Google crawlers page but maybe it is too new to be listed yet?

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 ...

Ethics and big business go together like water and sodium. We can’t deny that, in order to ensure continued growth, a business has to pull some shady and messed-up practices, and this means that ...

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 ...