crawlingIn-depth guide to how Google Search works
Get an in-depth understanding of how Google Search works and improve your site for Google's crawling, indexing, and ranking processes.
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- indexing 9
- search console 5
- sitemap 4
- snippets 3
- images 3
- canonical 3
- robots.txt 3
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crawlingURL structure best practices for Google Search
It's a good idea to keep your site's URL structure as simple as possible. Learn more about the URL format…
anchor textLink best practices for Google
Google uses links as a signal when determining the relevancy of pages and to find new pages to crawl. Learn…
crawlingLearn about sitemaps
A sitemap provides information that helps Google more intelligently crawl your site. Discover how a sitemap works and determine if…
crawlingAsk Google to recrawl your URLs
If you've recently added or made changes to a page on your site, you can request that Google re-index it…
crawlingIntroduction to robots.txt
Robots.txt is used to manage crawler traffic. Explore this robots.txt introduction guide to learn what robot.txt files are and how…
Crawl Budget: When It Matters and When It Does Not
Crawl rate and crawl demand, why most sites can ignore both, and what to do when yours cannot.
crawlingDiagnosing Crawl Errors
Reading what Search Console reports, and separating errors that matter from ones that are working as intended.
crawlingGoogle Crawlers and How to Verify Them
Which user agents Google operates, and how to confirm a request claiming to be Googlebot really is.
crawlingHow Google Interprets robots.txt
Matching rules, wildcards, precedence and the size limit, the details that decide whether your file does what you think.