Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

In the past few years, digital marketing has changed and evolved. It is no longer about using the right keywords and posting quality content regularly. Many new elements like user experience, local ...

Suppose you’ve just composed the most objectively useful, engaging and brilliant web content ever. Now suppose that content remained unseen and unheard of, never once appearing in search results.

In this article, learn about Bing's progress and takeaways on their 18-month journey to improve their web crawler, Bingbot. Last June 2018, at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, I announced that ...

In past articles, I’ve written about how programming skills can help you diagnose and solve complex problems, blend data from different sources, and even automate your SEO work. In this article, we ...

The boom of generative AI products over the past few months has prompted many websites to take countermeasures. The basic concern goes like this: AI products depend on consuming large volumes of ...

Web crawlers, used by search engines like Google and Bing to scan websites and index content, are also used by AI companies to train LLMs. These models learn from the content of websites and any other ...

Without announcement, OpenAI recently added details about its web crawler, GPTBot, to its online documentation site. GPTBot is the name of the user agent that the company uses to retrieve webpages to ...

From today, Cloudflare users will be able to block artificial intelligence (AI) crawlers from accessing their web content without permission of monetary compensation by default, in a bid to stop AI ...