Tucked away in the Settings section of Google Search Console is a report few SEO professionals discuss, but I like to monitor. These reports are known as Crawl Stats. Here, you’ll find an interesting ...

OpenAI crawl activity roughly tripled after GPT-5, with OAI-SearchBot now generating more log events than GPTBot.

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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 ...

Google Search Console's crawl stats report has a data gap, a missing day, of metrics again. This has happened numerous times, often this is fixed by itself after a few days. So I would check back in a ...

When Cloudflare announced its new Pay-Per-Crawl marketplace, some people saw a breakthrough. The idea is that if AI companies want to crawl your website to train their models, they should compensate ...

Google has another bug, this time with Google Search Console's crawl stats report. The report has a gap in the data, missing data on November 19th and November 20th. Google's John Mueller confirmed ...

Raw HTML is basically just a text file. For a text file to get to two megabytes it would require over two million characters. The HTTPArchive explains what’s in the HTML weight measurement: “HTML ...

This has happened a few times before, and it is now happening again. This is a Google issue and not an issue with your site. Google’s crawl stats report is missing a single day of crawl data, which ...

Constellation Network, a Web3 ecosystem validated by the US Department of Defense, today announced the launch of a customized blockchain developed in partnership with the Common Crawl Foundation, to ...