Crawling

Gary Illyes from Google came on to Twitter for a brief moment to share a PSA about 429/503 HTTP status codes. He said while you probably know…

Google’s John Mueller said that sites based in the United States do not get crawling priority from Google. It doesn’t matter where the site is…

Google’s John Mueller said that persistent 5xx error responses to Google’s requests by your server would result in Google slowing its crawl of your…

Bing announced a pilot, a really early test, for a content submission API. The content submission API takes it a step further than Bing’s efforts to…

This is hard to put in a title, but in short, Google’s John Mueller seems to have said that if you want Google to discover links added to a page…

Google’s John Mueller said in an #AskGoogleWebmasters video that now that “you no longer need to do anything special for hashbang URLs,” if you…

Google has actually said numerous times that changes in crawl rates do not mean an algorithm update is coming. But before this…

An apparent bug is currently affecting Google’s search suggestions and auto-complete function. If you try to search Google.com and begin typing,…

Google’s John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that Google will typically use the most restrictive crawling command or signals they find on the…

Posted by BritneyMuller It’s been a few months since our last share of our work-in-progress rewrite of the Beginner’s Guide to SEO, but after a brief…