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How Googlebot effects your website

millermedia — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:14:13 +0000

It is important for your websites to be found through search engines. Google uses Googlebot to index websites and organizes their ranking. Here are ways to control the crawling and indexing so you can control what part of your website is favored:

Use Robots.txt
Nofollow (meta robots tag)
Change your crawl rate using Google Search Console
Delete irrelevant content
Restrict access to certain pages you don’t want Google to see (ex. Private client info.)
Use Robots.txt for Images Only

When you are done make sure to check Google’s provided list of public IPs to verify any requests and compare them to the data in your server. This will protect you from malicious bots pretending to be Googlebot. Also, check your Crawl stats using Google Search Console (Settings > Crawl States). This will help you when organizing a content marketing strategy.

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Googlebot & How It Works

millermedia — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:09:17 +0000

Googlebot is a web crawler used by Google to gather information from news, images, and videos needed and build a searchable web index on mobile and desktop. It sees websites as users in the latest Chrome browser. The bot’s machines determine how fast and what websites to crawl.

Google’s Search Index:

URLs > Crawl Queue > Crawler > Processing >Render Queue > Renderer > Rendered HTML > Index

Google collects from various sources such as pages, sitemaps, RSS feeds, and URLs submitted in Google Search Console or the Index API. It organizes what it wants to crawl, collects the pages, and stores copies. The pages are processed to find links to API requests, JavaScript, and CSS that allows Google to render it. Additional requests get crawled and cached. Google uses the rendering to view pages similar to how a user would. It does this process repeatedly looking for any changes or new links and stores the content. This is what makes a website searchable in Google’s index.

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