Welcome to today’s Crawl or No Crawl report. Almost 4 years into this and today I’m reporting on seeing things I’ve never seen before in server logs.
These crawlers appeared on Jan 30 and 31st. I’ve been scouring everywhere and here’s the kicker:
the IPs are DEFINITELY Google IPs
Reverse DNS shows Google ownership
the behavior is identical to standard Googlebot crawler
no chrome
Is this a “new” crawler or did I happen on one of those tests that Google is known for?
Reward offered to the first SEO or webmaster in here who finds it in their logs.