Google's Gary Illyes says sudden crawling spikes may signal hacked sites or other issues. If Google suddenly crawls your site a lot, it may indicate problems. Problems could include unnecessary ...

Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Google is working on crawling fewer pages and reducing data consumption. Google previously revealed crawling decisions are dynamic and based on different factors. Improving content quality is vital to ...

As expected, Google removed the crawl rate setting tool within Google Search Console. Last November, Google told us they would deprecate the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console ...

OpenAI unveiled a new search engine called SearchGPT last week. Several top publisher sites are already blocking the related OpenAI web crawler, OAI-SearchBot. OpenAI says this new bot doesn't collect ...

Overview: Web crawling focuses on discovering and listing pages across the internet at scaleWeb scraping pulls specific data like prices or headlines from known ...

There are numerous complaints from SEOs and site owners who are noticing significant declines in crawl rates within Google Search Console. Most who see this, many do not by the way, are noticing the ...

The crawl stats report in Google Search Console is missing a day of data again. The data gap is for October 14, 2025. If you look at the chart, you will see a hole in the data, where it is missing a ...

As of this past week, the only major search engine that still includes Reddit is Google. You won’t find recent Reddit links in Microsoft’s Bing, or get useful results from the platform on ...