Hocalwire Daily Roundup | Google Analytics Referral Spam From Poland - Complaints

Google Analytics users are experiencing a surge in referral spam originating from Poland, prompting complaints and concerns among website owners. Meanwhile, Google steps in to address a query regarding crawl budget issues, providing insights and solutions. Additionally, Google releases a new episode of "How Search Works," focusing on crawling, to educate users on the intricacies of its search processes.

Google Analytics Referral Spam From Poland - Complaints

Site owners are complaining in great detail in a lengthy thread in the Google Analytics Help Forum about being inundated with phoney referral traffic coming from Poland. This began about February 17th and appears to be the standard referral spam problem.

There are over a thousand posts from GA users with complaints about this referral spam issue in Google Analytics. As of right now, I have not heard back from a Google person regarding this matter.

Source Url: https://www.seroundtable.com/polish-google-analytics-referral-spam-36953.html

Google Answers A Crawl Budget Issue Question

Google's John Mueller answers a question on the SEO subreddit about the reason for a crawl budget issue

Crawl Budget, The notion that Google has a crawl budget is widely believed; SEOs came up with it to explain why certain websites aren't crawled sufficiently. The concept is that each site gets a maximum number of crawls or the amount of crawling that a site is eligible for. It’s important to understand the background of the idea of the crawl budget because it helps understand what it really is. Google has long insisted that there is no one thing at Google that can be called a crawl budget, although how Google crawls a site can give an impression that there is a cap on crawling.

Source Url: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-answers-a-crawl-budget-issue-question/509449/

Google Releases New ‘How Search Works’ Episode On Crawling

Google explains how its search engine crawls the web in the latest "How Search Works" video.

• Google released a new "How Search Works" video on crawling.
• Googlebot discovers new web pages by following links from known pages.
• Sitemaps help Googlebot efficiently crawl all pages on a website.

Googlebot starts by following links from known web pages to uncover new URLs, a process called URL discovery. It avoids overloading sites by crawling each one at a unique, customized speed based on server response times and content quality.

Source Url: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-releases-new-how-search-works-episode-on-crawling/509552/

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