What is Googlebot ?

[dennis123]

What is Googlebot ?

[biglyft18]

Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine

[ashishbansal]

Googlebot also known as spiders or little robot is a computer program written by Google, which crawls websites and adds pages to its index. Here index is nothing but Google brain. Whenever you submit new url to Google, Googlebot crawls it. Crawling is the process of discovering new and updated pages of sites and adding it to its index. Only after crawling and indexing your site appears in search results

Google uses large number of computers and follows an algorithmic process that determines to crawl billions of web pages, how many pages to crawl and at what rate. The crawling process starts with urls, generated from previous crawl process and decides to forgo to next page.

Google bot detects SRC and HREF attributes, new sites, any changes to existing sites, broken links, dead links, etc.,. It only crawls SRC “source” links and HREF “hypertext reference” links

What is Google Crawl ?

To crawl your website, firstly Googlebot has to visit your website. For this you have submit url to Google. Googlebot crawls the sites within few seconds once in a week. The amount of time spent by Googlebot on site is called “crawl budget”. The more the site is responsive, it crawls the site that speedily. So, it wholly depends on the servers bandwidth if it’s good, so that spiders can crawl as many pages as possible. Webmasters can limit the usage of bandwidth by Googlebot and this effect continues upto 90 days

How will Google know your website is ready to crawl?

As soon as your website is ready submit url to Google. Double check before submitting, if any broken links or outdated links are present. Google bot will download the same link and hence forms the errors.

Sitemap is an xml file made by webmasters informing search engines that site is ready, urls and links are available to crawl. If any new or updated url is present, then these are submitted to sitemap xml file, so that bot can get access to crawl and add updated pages to index, hence improving the page ranking

[Optnation]

Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web.

[wiztech]

Spiders,Crawlers, or google Bots are just programs the search engines use to index the content found on the World Wide Web.

[tamilselvi]

Googlebot is the search bot programming utilized by Google, which gathers archives from the web to fabricate an accessible list for the Google Search engine.

[dombowkett]

Google bots are used to index the website backlinks & ranking.

[HosTechS]

Googlebot is Google's spider bot. It is a technique by which; Googlebot invents new updated pages which are added to the Google index. It uses a large number of computers to retrieve billions of pages on the web.

[Wiztechplc]

Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot. Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

Google uses a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process: computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site.

[kanagaseo]

Googlebot is a crawler used by the Google.Its a kind of software which collects details from that webpage and index the web page into search engine.Sometime is called a spider, it discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

- Its a robots that finds and fetches the webpages form a website.
- If you want to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot,you can do with the robots.txt file to allow or disallow.
- Googlebot only follows Href links--which indicates the URL.