Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

An experiment by technical SEO expert Kristina Azarenko reveals what happens you disable Googlebot from crawling a website using robots.txt. Ever wondered what would happen if you prevented Google ...

Google’s Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman discussed three factors that trigger increased Googlebot crawling. While they downplayed the need for constant crawling, they acknowledged there a ways to ...

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Global cloud platform company Cloudflare has accused Perplexity AI of using “stealth, undeclared crawlers” to intentionally ignore websites’ no-crawl directives. In other words, Perplexity is getting ...