Googlebot fraud happens when malicious bots pose as one of Google’s crawlers to sneak past your security rules, allowing them broader crawling and scraping access than typical traffic. From there, ...

When it comes to crawl budget and Google not crawling your site too much or too little, Google takes into account all Googlebot activity across all verticals. So that includes crawling for web search, ...

Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google to show your favicon you must allow both ...

Google’s crawl stats report is missing a single day of crawl data, which seems to be impacting all sites within Google Search Console. Google has not yet confirmed the issue but it seems to be ...

The bots that quietly map the internet—the unseen engines behind search—are starting to shift the balance of power online. For decades, Google’s web crawler set the pace for how information was ...