Last week, we saw reports that some Shopify sites were showing massive declines in crawling activity from Google's Googlebot. John Mueller of Google responded this morning that this was "temporary drop in how we calculate how much we can crawl" adding these sites are in a "good state" and there is nothing to worry about.
John Mueller wrote on Twitter "we looked into the sites that were mentioned and for all of them it was a temporary drop in how we calculate how much we can crawl. This happens from time to time, and catches up after a few days usually." "As far as the engineers are concerned, these are in a good state, crawling will speed up again, and there's not something that needs to be done. It's kinda confusing from the outside though," he added.
And yes, as of this morning, Shopify site owners and webmasters are reporting normal crawling again.
Tim Dennis flagged me about this last week on Twitter and I've been watching it since but there is still no clear answer on what is the issue yet. He did share charts from a few Shopify sites he runs showing the flatlining of Googlebot activity as reported in Google Search Console's crawl stats report:
Yeh, all the Shopify stores I have access to have flatlined. No new pages indexed for a couple of weeks. https://t.co/C1u4ZKKOi0
— Tim Dennis (@tim_fully) February 4, 2022
It is not just Tim who noticed this, others are reporting this as well.
Like I said both Shopify and Google are looking into it. John Mueller from Google...
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