Google updated two of its help documents to clarify how much Googlebot can crawl.

Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify file size limits, separating default limits that apply to all crawlers ...

You can't block Googlebot from crawling specific sections of an HTML page. Using the data-nosnippet HTML attribute or an iframe can control how content appears in search snippets. A disallow rule in ...

We have known for a long time that Google can crawl web pages up to the first 15MB but now Google updated some of its help ...

Google’s Martin Splitt discusses the effort behind making Googlebot ‘evergreen’ in this clip from Live with Search Engine Land. The evergreen Googlebot was a huge leap forward in Google’s ability to ...

Google announced that starting in December Google will update Google’s user agent to represent the version of Chrome that GoogleBot is running. It is important to update any code you may have that may ...

Google announced that starting in November 2020 it may begin to crawl some sites over HTTP/2. Google wrote "today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over ...

According to new research released today by Incapsula, a web security firm, millions of these “evil twins” are used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, hacking, spam, content theft and ...

Googlebot, the giant webcrawler that Google uses to scan webpages and update its index, is ditching its iPhone disguise to become an Android. Rather ironically, the tool has been masquerading as an ...

I run a small antique-bookstore using wordpress and an e-commerce plugin. Lately, I haven't been able to find any books of mine on google, only the page title followed by "Buy Altace No Prescription - ...

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