Crawl Or No Crawl

Crawl Or No Crawl

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Crawl Or No Crawl
Crawl Or No Crawl
New Crawler or Glimpse at a Test?

New Crawler or Glimpse at a Test?

February 3, 2025 - Day of the Indexation research

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Carolyn Holzman
Feb 03, 2025
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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:

  1. the IPs are DEFINITELY Google IPs

  2. Reverse DNS shows Google ownership

  3. the behavior is identical to standard Googlebot crawler

  4. 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.

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