Googlebot SEO Benefits 2021

Whenever we talk about bots then it reminded us something or someone who came to visit our content on regular basis. A bot is a set of codes which have proper instructions to analyze contents. A bot can access Website SEO, videos, images, texts, links, backlinks, broken-links, Negative Backlinks and many more such things. these things help Google to determine DA, PA and other factors of your site.

Google uses these user agents to crawl any site and their contents. If you don’t want anything to be crawled then just disallow that in the robots.txt file.

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We will talk about how can you give special instructions to these bots using robots.txt file later in this article?

Googlebot types and their special purpose

These are the several Google bots which are commonly used. Have a look at them and check your robots.txt to identify are you using them or not?

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Googlebot – It crawls pages from Google web index and news index for desktop and smartphone both.

Googlebot-Mobile – It crawls pages for mobile indexing.

Googlebot-Video – It crawl pages for video indexing.

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Googlebot-Images – It crawls the pages for image indexing.

Adsbot-Google – This bot will crawl pages to measure AdWords landing page quality. It is also applicable in the case of AdSense use.

Googlebot-News  This mainly crawls news contents, If you don’t want to use it just use Googlebot, it is applicable for all.

How Googlebot accesses your site?

For most sites, Googlebot shouldn’t access your site more than once every few seconds on average. Could you believe that? I don’t. But, yes it is real. However, due to network delays, It’s possible that the rate will be seen slightly higher than they say over a short interval.

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Googlebot was designed to be distributed on several machines to improve performance and scale as the web grows. Also to cut down your bandwidth usage Googlebot crawl your site from the nearest crawlers available. Therefore, your logs may show visits from several machines at google.com, all with the user-agent Googlebot.

How can you block Googlebot to access content on your site?

Googlebots only accesses and crawls those contents which you allow them to do. This allows and disallows matters should be written in the robots.txt file.

For Example – The sample code from a robots.txt file given below is just allowing all Googlebots to access all your content. It is not disallowing anything. This is not only allowing Googlebot it also allow Bingbot, Yandexbot, Ninjabot and other bots available on internet.

User-Agent: *
Disallow:

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