Technical SEO
Googlebot
Google's web crawling bot that discovers and fetches pages for indexing.
CurrentLast updated: 2026-09-16
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Technical SEOGooglebot is Google's web crawler. It follows links to discover pages, fetches their content, and passes them to Google's indexer. Googlebot has separate user agents for desktop and mobile, with mobile-first indexing meaning the mobile version is primarily used.
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