Some Sites Seeing Massive Crawl Spikes From Googlebot

Glenn Gabe noted that he is seeing some weird Google Googlebot activity recently, saying he is seeing "crawling spike across a number of sites" that started on January 12th through January 13th. I then checked some of the properties and noticed that on some, not most, I see the same.

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Google: SEO Site Migrations Are Hard Because URL Signals Need To Be Forwarded

John Mueller is out with another #AskGooglebot Google SEO video, this one is on site migrations and URL changes. It is a short two minute video on one of the most SEO intimidating changes one can make to their site - change all the URLs on their site.

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Google Deduplication Of Top Stories From Web Search Results

We know Google has deduplication efforts for when a featured snippet is displayed so that it might remove the snippet from the main web results. Google may do the same, in some cases, for when a URL is listed in the top stories section and then not show it in the main web results.

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Recipe Schema Markup No Longer Supports Ranges For Cook, Prep & Total Time

Google no longer supports time ranges for cook prep and total times times within recipe schema markup and structured data. Google said it removed the "guidance about specifying a range for the cookTime and prepTime properties in the Recipe documentation."

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Google Boulder Meeting Room In An RV?

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