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 ...

When you look for something online using a keyword, the search engine goes through trillions of pages to create a list of results that are related to your keyword, according to CloudFlare. So how do ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot. It ...

Most businesses live or die on Google search rankings. If you can’t crack the top few results, it’s almost impossible to consistently drive organic traffic to your site. But how does Google decide ...

Apple doesn't have to rely solely on outside web providers like Google or Microsoft to fuel your iOS and Mac searches. The company has confirmed the rumored existence of Applebot, a web crawler that ...

A number of news and media publishers are already blocking AI web crawlers from accessing their sites, worried about the impact on traffic when all their work is swept up into AI chatbot experiences.