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

Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages added daily. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic indexer, ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about declining crawl rates after making large changes to the websites infrastructure, in this case, moving to a new content delivery network (CDN). Mueller ...

Google announced new support for their crawlers with locale-adaptive web pages, web pages that change the content based on the user’s country origin and/or language settings. For example, web ...

A WebmasterWorld thread has a savvy webmaster/SEO noticing that GoogleBot is not bothering to crawl and indexed the pre-rendered web page, instead, it is running all the JavaScript and then ...

Focused web crawling is an advanced field within information retrieval that selectively targets web pages relevant to specific topics. Unlike general-purpose search engines, these crawlers employ ...