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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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The rise of generative AI tools may have leveled the on-page SEO playing field. But search engines are smart. Recent updates in their algorithms and ranking systems now mean that user experience (UX) ...

Having good Core Web Vitals scores won’t necessarily lead to improved indexing of your webpages in Google’s search results. This is stated by Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller during a recent ...

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 ...

For 20 years, most SEO professionals only cared about Googlebot. However, in the last few years, a host of new crawlers have emerged from different indexing platforms, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and ...