Focused web crawling is an advanced field within information retrieval that selectively targets web pages relevant to specific topics. Unlike general-purpose search engines, these crawlers employ ...

There have been an ongoing discussions over the past few weeks across social media that Googlebot has dramatically reduced its crawling. For example, the founder of a web crawl analysis service ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about declining crawl rates after making large changes to the websites infrastructure, in this case, moving to a new content delivery network (CDN). Mueller ...

If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one ...

For 20 years, most SEO professionals only cared about Googlebot. However, in the last few years, a host of new crawlers have emerged from different indexing platforms, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and ...

Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly.

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again ...

The rise of generative AI tools may have leveled the on-page SEO playing field. But search engines are smart. Recent updates in their algorithms and ranking systems now mean that user experience (UX) ...