Martin Splitt from Google posted a one-line question asking, "Should we do something to explain the crawl stats report in GSC?" This was posted on Mastodon, which has a small audience, but the ...

Google has two types of web crawling - one is for discovering new content and one is for refreshing content that has already been published. Google utilizes two types of crawling methods when it goes ...

John Mueller of Google wrote a very detailed and honest explanation on why Google (and third party SEO tools) do not crawl and index every URL or link on the web. He explained that crawling is not ...

Google recently published a podcast discussing what’s known as a crawl budget and what influences Google to index content. Both Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt shared insights into indexing the web, as ...

It’s not guaranteed Googlebot will crawl every URL it can access on your site. On the contrary, the vast majority of sites are missing a significant chunk of pages. The reality is, Google doesn’t have ...