Engineering Notes: Server Logs and Crawl Testing

Practical guides to verifying Googlebot, interpreting access logs and designing reproducible crawl and indexing tests.

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Verify Googlebot requests, separate inspection tools from Search crawling, and measure requested URLs without confusing server visits with indexing.

Build a crawl test with fixed URLs, source-only seeding, separate crawl and index observations, and an observation window you can review later.