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Google Says Cache-Control Headers Aren't Used For Crawling & Indexing Unless It's Embedded Content

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again ...
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Google clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers

Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google also ...
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Google Crawler Documentation Adds HTTP Caching

Google has updated its crawler help documentation to add a new section for HTTP caching, which explains how Google's crawlers handle cache control headers. Google also posted a blog post begging us to ...