Googlebot Crawler Simulator
Test how Google's search crawler sees your website. Identify technical SEO issues and ensure your content is indexed for Google Search and AI Overview.
Test your site with Googlebot
Enter your URL to see how Googlebot views your site.
What is Googlebot?
Googlebot is Google's primary web crawler responsible for discovering and indexing web pages for Google Search. It also powers Google's AI Overview (formerly SGE) responses. Googlebot comes in two versions: Googlebot Desktop and Googlebot Smartphone. Understanding what Googlebot sees is crucial for search engine optimization and appearing in Google's AI-generated answers.
Why allow Googlebot?
Googlebot robots.txt configuration
Control how Googlebot accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Allow Googlebot
# Allow Googlebot (recommended for most sites) User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / # Also allow Google's other crawlers User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: GoogleOther Allow: /
Block Googlebot
# Block Googlebot (not recommended) User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: / # Block Google's AI training crawler only User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: /
User-Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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