Amazon Web Services S3 Blocked Googlebot In June – Here Is My Recovery – Search Engine Roundtable
Back in mid-June, I noticed that Google was not showing many of my images in Google Search and Discover and also some readers were pointing it out to me. So I used the handy Google Search Console URL Inspection tool to find out those S3 URLs I was using to host my images were blocking Googlebot from crawling. Here is a bit of a case study from yours truly of an indexing/crawling issue I had for my image URLs.
This AWS bug led to an 83% drop in the impressions my images were getting from Google Search and Google Images. It led to a 76% drop in image search related clicks to this site. I am still down several weeks later by about 16% in impressions and 26% in clicks from image search but it is a huge improvement.
Here is the Google Search Console Search Performance report showing the impressions and clicks chart over time. You will see the drop around June 15th, then it start to pick back up around July 8th. You will also see that my image traffic has still not fully returned to its…
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