How We Can Get More Benifits by Using New Webmaster Tool "Fetch As Googlebot"

What Is Fetch As Googlebot

Fetch as Googlebot has two modes.

Fetch – Quick Check

In this mode, Googlebot will crawl a URL based on a path you specify, and you can then view the response your site sent to Googlebot. This can be used to check connectivity, basic errors, redirects or security issues with your website.

Fetch & Render – Deeper View

In this mode, Google crawls the URL and displays the page the way a browser would.

How To Use Fetch As GoogleBot

Here are the basic steps:

    On the Webmaster Tools home page, select your site.
    In the left-hand navigation, click Crawl and then select Fetch as Google.
    In the textbox, enter the path component of a URL on your site that you want Googlebot to retrieve.
    From the grey drop-down, choose the type of Googlebot with which you wish to perform a fetch (or fetch and render).

The Different Types Of Googlebot Requests

There are four different Googlebot requests you can make in Fetch as Google.

If you would like to see how a desktop browser sees your site, select Desktop. To see how smartphone mobile crawlers see your site, choose Mobile Smartphone.

If you want to see how the mobile crawler for a feature phone sees the site, select Mobile cHTML or Mobile XHTML/WML. (Google notes that the Mobile cHTML is mainly for Japanese websites.)

If you do a basic Fetch, you can see the HTTP response that Google got from your page. When you do Fetch and Render, you get the response and get to see how your page looks in the specified browser.

(Note: The “Fetch And Render” option is not available for the WML and cHTML at this time, so unfortunately you won’t be able to see how your page renders for feature phones.)

Once you’ve entered your URL and fetched it, you will have the option of submitting it to Google for indexation. You’ll see a button allowing you to do so. (This button will also appear on the upper right-hand corner of the Fetch details page.)

After you submit a URL to be fetched, you can click on the path once it’s completed. This will bring you to a page with further details. At the top, you’ll see the URL that was fetched, the Googlebot type, and when it was completed. If you chose to Fetch and Render the page, you’ll see a “Fetching” tab and a “Rendering” tab.

The Fetching tab shows you the downloaded HTTP response, which can be very helpful if you are ensuring a page status, and it also shows you the code of the page. Finally, it shows you the download time of the page at the bottom.

The Rendering tab will give you an idea of how your page renders in the browser selected (desktop or smartphone). It will also list any page resources that Googlebot was not able to access.

How Many Fetches & Submissions Can You Do?

So, there actually is a quota on fetches and submissions, but most of us will never exceed it. According to Google, you are limited to 500 fetches per week. (You’ll get a notification that you’re approaching your limit once you have hit 400.)

When it comes to actual submissions to the index, they give you 500 individual URL submissions and 10 submissions where Google will crawl that URL and all of the direct links as well.

Diagnosing Your Fetch As GoogleBot Results

With this tool, you can submit a site a to get it indexed quicker, see if a page is blocked by robots.txt, see if a page is being redirected, make sure a page works on mobile, see if your server is taking too long to respond and so much more. But you can’t do any of that if you don’t know what the fetch statuses mean. So here they are.

Fetch Statuses :