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How does Googlebot really handle crawling and detecting duplicate content?
Before Google can index and serve a page to users, Googlebot needs to crawl and render it. Googlebot follows links to discover new content and predicts duplicate content behind different URLs to save ...
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Is it true that Googlebot really favors HTTPS for crawling your site?
Today, about 75% of Googlebot's crawl traffic is in HTTPS, while HTTP accounts for only 25% of this traffic. This shows a trend towards a more secure web, although there is still room for HTTPS usage ...
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What really happens when Googlebot can't access your robots.txt?
The robots.txt file allows webmasters to specify access to their site. Before crawling any URL, Googlebot always checks the robots.txt file. If the robots.txt file is not accessible or returns a persi...
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Should you really adjust Googlebot's crawl rate in Search Console?
Googlebot maintains a crawl rate for each site to avoid overloading servers. If your site is overloaded, you can adjust the crawl rate through a tool in Google Search Console. However, increasing this...