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Crawling smarter, not harder | Search Off the Record
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Does crawling more often mean a better site? John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman and Gary Illyes untangle ideas about crawl frequency and site quality, and ask how crawling could be more efficient.
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Google staff John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman and Gary Illyes untangle misconceptions about crawl frequency and site quality, and why crawling the web is harder now.
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