Googlebot

Googlebot is Google's web crawler. It discovers and fetches pages across the web, following links and sitemaps, so that Google can index the content. Googlebot uses two main variants: a desktop crawler and a mobile crawler; the mobile version is the primary one for indexing.

Why it matters: Ensure Googlebot can access your important pages: keep robots.txt permissive for content pages, avoid blocking CSS or JavaScript resources that render your pages, and serve a 200 status for canonical URLs. Use Search Console's crawl stats and URL inspection to monitor Googlebot activity and resolve coverage issues.