Google robots or Google bots are being explained as the bot that crawls the web. Googlebot crawls web pages through different via links and finds and reads new and updated content and post suggestion what should be added to the index. Google uses different senders to every nook and cranny of the web to look at the pages and what’s posted over here. Googlebot is defined as Google’s web crawler or robot while other search engines have their own. Additionally, take care of Google’s Algorithms Impacts as well as if not done systemically it might impact your business’ SEO.
How does Googlebot work?
Googlebot uses sitemaps and databases of links that are found at the time of previous crawls to examine which page they should visit the next. Whenever any crawler finds new links on a site, they add them in to the list of pages and visit them soon in the future. If Googlebot finds changes in the links or in case some of them are broken, it will make a note of the same. The program finds out how many times the page is crawled. In order to ensure that Googlebot can correctly index your site, it is important to check its crawlability. In case your website is available to crawlers, they can easily come around often.
Different robots
There are different kinds of robots. Some of the robots including AdSense and AdsBot are there to check ad quality, while Mobile Apps Android checks Android apps. Some of the most important robots include:
Name | User-agent |
Googlebot (desktop) | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) |
Googlebot (smartphone) | Mozilla/5.0; AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537. |
Googlebot Video | Googlebot-Video/1.0 |
Googlebot Images | Googlebot-Image/1.0 |
Googlebot News | Googlebot-News |
A new Google robots update - Google MUM?
MUM means Multitask Unified Model and it can significantly change the way users interact with search engines. On average Google takes minimum eight queries to “complete” a complex task and here comes the role of Google MUM. It cuts down the total number of searches it takes while resolving the complex queries.
Google MUM is built on a transformer architecture similar to BERT, but it is much more powerful than others and is trained across 75 different languages. It not only understands a language but is capable of generating it as well
How to verify Googlebot
Before blocking Googlebot, make sure that the user agent string used by Googlebot is often spoofed by different crawlers as well. It’s essential to verify that a problematic request might come from Google only and the best way to verify such kind of request from Googlebot is to look at the reverse DNS lookup.
So next time when you see any Googlebot on your website, don’t immediately block Googlebot from accessing your site as it can directly impact Googlebot’s ability to crawl and index the site’s content, which results in a loss of ranking in Google’s search results. Also along with posting quality content, creating a dynamic website, quality backlinks is another key factor in Google’s algorithms, so assure that you’re only interlinking to sites that are reputable and similar to your business.