Was There Crawl Spikes From Google After URL Parameter Tool Went Offline?

As you know, last week, on April 26th, Google disabled the URL parameter tool within Google Search Console and stopped respecting any of the rules added to that tool. Some are asking if the recent crawl spikes they saw with Googlebot was related to this change.

from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/2q41Wbs