#Crawling
Crawling is how search engines discover and download the pages of a website. Articles tagged here explain how crawlers find URLs through links and sitemaps and how they decide what to fetch again. They cover crawl budget, crawl traps, server errors and slow responses. Each guide shows how to see your site the way a crawler sees it. You will learn which fixes make crawling faster and cleaner. A page that is never crawled can never be indexed or ranked.
2026. gada 1. okt. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minInfinite Scroll SEO: Make Endless Pages Crawlable
Infinite scroll can hide most of your products or posts from search engines. Learn how to build it on real paginated URLs so every…
2026. gada 1. okt. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minCommon Crawl and CCBot: What It Means for Your Website
What Common Crawl is, what its CCBot crawler collects, how the data is used for AI training and research, and how to decide whether…
2026. gada 1. okt. · Lasīšanas laiks: 9 minLog File Analysis for SEO: What Your Server Logs Reveal
Server logs show what search engine bots really request on your site. Learn how to read them, what to look for and which SEO…
2026. gada 30. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minAI Crawlers and XML Sitemaps: What Is Known and What Helps
XML sitemaps were built for search engines, not AI assistants. See what is known about AI crawlers and sitemaps, and why a clean sitemap…
2026. gada 30. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minCustom 404 Pages: What a Helpful Not Found Page Needs
A custom 404 page must return the right status code and still help lost visitors. Learn how to set it up, test it and…
2026. gada 29. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minIndexNow Explained: Should Your Site Ping Search Engines?
What IndexNow is, which search engines use it, how to set it up with a key file or plugin, what it does not do,…
2026. gada 29. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minInternal Site Search Pages: Keep Them Out of the Index
Why internal site search result pages should usually stay out of Google, how to block them with noindex or robots.txt, and how to use…
2026. gada 29. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minWebsite Downtime and SEO: What Outages Do to Rankings
What happens to rankings when a website goes down, how long is too long, how to handle planned maintenance with 503, and how to…
2026. gada 29. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minCrawl Stats Report in Search Console: How to Read It
A plain guide to the Search Console Crawl Stats report: what each chart and breakdown means, which patterns are normal, and which ones point…
2026. gada 29. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 8 minLast-Modified, ETag and 304: HTTP Caching Headers for SEO
How Last-Modified, ETag and 304 Not Modified responses help crawlers and visitors, how to test your headers, and caching mistakes that confuse search engines.
2026. gada 26. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 7 minIndex Bloat: How to Find and Clean Up Unwanted Indexed URLs
Index bloat means search engines hold many URLs you never meant to rank. How to measure it, which URL types cause it, and how…
2026. gada 18. sept. · Lasīšanas laiks: 7 minCDN and SEO: Setup Choices That Help or Hurt Search
A CDN can speed up every page or quietly block crawlers and serve stale content. The CDN settings that matter for SEO and how…