28 June 2026
A drop in crawl stats is usually good news, not a penalty Crawl requests fall in Search Console and the panic starts: am I being throttled, deindexed, penalized? Almost never. Falling crawl volume is …
27 June 2026
The priority tag in your sitemap does nothing. Google ignores it Somewhere a plugin is letting you set priority 0.8 and changefreq "daily" on every URL, and you're feeling organized. Google ignores bo…
26 June 2026
Republishing old posts with a new date does not force a re-crawl The trick gets passed around constantly: bump the date, maybe change a paragraph, and Google treats it as fresh and re-crawls. Mostly i…
25 June 2026
No tool fixes crawl budget, and the ones that claim to are selling you reports There's a category of crawler software that promises to "optimize your crawl budget." What it actually does is crawl your…
24 June 2026
Googlebot renders your JavaScript. Just not when you think The panic that Googlebot can't run JavaScript is a decade out of date. It runs an evergreen Chromium. But the comforting version, "it sees ev…
23 June 2026
Your crawl budget isn't wasted on pages. It's wasted on combinations When real crawl waste happens, it's rarely your 500 articles. It's the URL parameters multiplying behind them. One product page wit…