Google Warns That Moving to a CDN Can Suddenly Spike Googlebot Crawling
· Digital Living
Google's Gary Illyes and Chery Prommawin have released the last video in their Non-Canonical Cabinet series, focused on content delivery networks (CDNs). They explain why a CDN migration can raise Googlebot crawl activity and put pressure on your origin server.
Google's Gary Illyes and Chery Prommawin published the final episode of the Non-Canonical Cabinet video series. This installment is about CDNs, the content delivery networks many sites use to serve pages to visitors.
The pair discuss why switching a website over to a CDN can lead to a sudden increase in Googlebot crawling. For a business, that means a routine infrastructure change may have an unexpected effect on how often Google requests your pages.
They also cover how this extra crawling can overload your origin server, the main server where your site actually lives. A site owner who expects the CDN to ease the load could instead see new strain during the transition.
The video also addresses how to avoid accidentally blocking Google's crawlers while setting up or adjusting a CDN. Blocking them by mistake could interfere with how your site is crawled.
Takeaway for businesses: If you plan to move your site to a CDN, watch the video first, monitor your origin server and Googlebot activity during the switch, and check that your CDN settings do not block Google's crawlers.
Sources: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-cdn-42511.html