6 things that happen when Googlebot can’t crawl your website – Search Engine Land
Ever wondered what would happen if you prevented Google from crawling your website for a few weeks? Technical SEO expert Kristina Azarenko has published the results of such an experiment.
Six surprising things that happened. What happened when Googlebot couldn’t crawl Azarenko’s site from Oct 5 to Nov. 7:
- Favicon was removed from Google Search results.
- Video search results took a big hit and still haven’t recovered post-experiment.
- Positions remained relatively stable, except were slightly more volatile in Canada.
- Traffic only saw only a slight decrease.
- An increase in reported indexed pages in Google Search Console. Why? Pages with noindex meta robots tags ended up being indexed because Google couldn’t crawl the site to see those tags.
- Multiple alerts in GSC (e.g., “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt”, “Blocked by robots.txt”).
Why we care. Testing is a crucial element of SEO. All changes (intentional or unintentional) can impact your rankings and traffic and bottom line, so…
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