Googlebot: SEO Mythbusting

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In the second episode of SEO Mythbusting, Martin Splitt (WebMaster Trends Analyst, Google) and his guest Suz Hinton (Cloud Developer Advocate, Microsoft) discuss the many intricacies of Googlebot such as:
What is - and what is not - Googlebot (crawling, indexing, ranking) (1:02)
Does Googlebot behave like a web browser? (3:33)
How often does Googlebot crawl, how much does it crawl, and how much can a server bear? (4:03)
Crawlers & JavaScript-based websites (9:04)
How do you tell that it’s Googlebot visiting your site? (11:12)
The difference between mobile-first indexing and mobile friendliness (12:28)
Quality indicators for ranking (13:35)

Documentation mentioned in this episode:
What Crawl Budget Means for Googlebot → https://goo.gle/crawl-budget
Google crawlers (user agents) - see which robots Google uses to crawl the web → https://goo.gle/googlebot-useragents
Implement dynamic rendering → https://goo.gle/dynamic-rendering
Prepare for mobile-first indexing → https://goo.gle/mobile-first-indexing

In the future episodes of SEO Mythbusting, look forward to more topics such as SEO & JavaScript, SEO & Web Performance, SEO & Web Frameworks, and SEO & Future of the Web.

Watch more SEO Mythbusting episodes → https://goo.gle/SEO-Mythbusting
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