06 September 2026
Your crawler is not Googlebot, and treating it like one misleads you Myth: run a desktop crawler, see what Google sees. No. Screaming Frog and Sitebliss crawl breadth-first, fast, with no concept of c…
05 September 2026
You don't need a log platform to do log analysis Myth: real crawl analysis means Splunk, an ELK stack, or a $400/month SEO log tool. Reality: most sites under a million URLs get 90% of the insight fro…
04 September 2026
noindex and robots disallow are not interchangeable, and people keep swapping them Myth: both "get rid of" a page, so pick whichever. No. They solve opposite problems. robots disallow blocks the crawl…
03 September 2026
Stop pretending Crawl Stats replaces your log files Myth: the Search Console Crawl Stats report tells you what Googlebot does. Reality: it tells you what Google decided to show you, bucketed and sampl…
02 September 2026
Mistake: your noindex is below the fold of the HTML and Google skips it Subtle one. A noindex meta tag injected by JavaScript, or a robots directive that only appears deep in the rendered DOM after a …
01 September 2026
"Discovered – currently not indexed" is not a crawl budget verdict You see that status in Search Console and conclude Google ran out of crawl budget for your site. Half-right at best, and the wrong fi…
