Crawling is the first step on any page’s journey to a results page. Search engines must discover your page before evaluating it and deciding where to place it in the results. Crawling the web is a ...

Earlier this week, I wrote about my disappointment that granular data (the number of URLs reported, the specifics of the errors…) was removed from Google webmaster tools. However, as I’ve been talking ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about Google Search Console (GSC) showing crawl errors on pages that load fine in the browser. John Mueller explained that the problem is typically found on ...

A week ago, Google revamped their Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors user interfaces and reporting. It led many asking, how do I get the detailed reports I am use to getting? Over the weekend, Vanessa Fox ...

Now, as of today, you can no longer see your crawl errors in Google Search Console specific to news sites. Here is a screen shot now: Here is what it looked like a couple weeks ago: I should note, the ...

Google announced they are now sending out Google Webmaster Tools alerts for crawl errors. Google grouped the errors in two buckets. (1) Site Error alerts for major ...

There are plenty of reasons why you’d want Googlebot to recrawl your website ahead of schedule. Maybe you’ve cleaned up a malware attack that damaged your organic visibility and want a clean bill of ...

Vincent Wehren runs through each of the alerts, from DNS Failures to Crawl Errors. He said it's important to set up a communications preference to receive daily emails and notifications.