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Google says Shopify sites are in a good crawling state after reports of stalled crawling

February 7, 2022

Last week there were numerous reports that Google stopped crawling and Googlebot “flatlined” its crawling activity on many, if not, all Shopify websites. Google’s John Mueller responded to the reports this morning that yes, that is what it appeared to happen in Google Search Console but these sites “are in a good state” and “crawling will speed up again.” He said the issue was related to a “temporary drop in how we calculate how much we can crawl,” implying there was no issue with the Shopify sites.

What was the issue. Here are reports showing how Google Search Console’s crawl states report showed Googlebot activity flatline last week:

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