What does Googlebot mean?

What does Googlebot mean?

web crawling software
Googlebot is a web crawling software search bot (also known as a spider or webcrawler) that gathers the web page information used to supply Google search engine results pages (SERP). Googlebot collects documents from the web to build Google’s search index. Googlebot begins with a list generated from previous sessions.

What is Googlebot and how does it work?

Googlebot crawls web pages via links. It finds and reads new and updated content and suggests what should be added to the index. The index, of course, is Google’s brain. Googlebot is Google’s web crawler or robot and other search engines have their own.

How do you know if you have a Googlebot?

Alternatively, you can identify Googlebot by IP address by matching the crawler’s IP address to the list of Googlebot IP addresses. For all other Google crawlers, match the crawler’s IP address against the complete list of Google IP addresses.

How do I use Googlebot?

In the left-hand navigation, click Crawl and then select Fetch as Google. In the textbox, enter the path component of a URL on your site that you want Googlebot to retrieve. From the grey drop-down, choose the type of Googlebot with which you wish to perform a fetch (or fetch and render).

Can Googlebot access my site?

For most sites, Googlebot shouldn’t access your site more than once every few seconds on average. However, due to delays it’s possible that the rate will appear to be slightly higher over short periods.

Can Googlebot crawl my site?

Whenever someone publishes an incorrect link to your site or fails to update links to reflect changes in your server, Googlebot will try to crawl an incorrect link from your site.

How many Googlebots are there?

In fact, how many Googlebots are there? Google has sixteen different bots designed for various forms of site rendering and crawling.

Should I block Googlebot?

Blocking Googlebot from accessing a site can directly affect Googlebot’s ability to crawl and index the site’s content, and may lead to a loss of ranking in Google’s search results.