Your SEO Samurai

Once your website is developed use the Googlebot tools to see if Google loves your webpage. This warrior crawls through your page to see if everything is 'A-OK' and visitors will be able to view your website the way you want them to. The tools are Fetch and Fetch & Render. 

They are the same with a difference in approach. Google release Fetch and realized that people need more. So they added the Fetch & Render tool which gives you a visual representation of everything.

Difference Between 'Fetch' and 'Fetch & Render'


Fetch will test and simulate the way Google search engine crawls through your site. It is a simulator which will access your page just as Google does, the way it will show the page to visitors. This way you will know if Google ‘loves’ your website/ webpage.

Fetch & Render will crawl through the website and tell you about issues in the elements that are inaccessible, blocked (or cannot see) resources like connectivity, security, images or scripts. Use it to debug any website crawl issues.

Consider Fetch as the first version of Google’s help and Fetch & Render as its updated version to help you see how it will crawl through your website.

When you use ‘Fetch’ it will announce the status as Complete or ‘Partial’. When there are parts of the webpage not accessible by Google during crawl it will indicate with Partial status.

Here are some of the errors you will find:

• Redirected: Your robots.txt or javascript has sent Googlebot to a different page.

• Not found: Google can contact your site, however, can’t find a particular page you stated in the URL.

• Not authorized: Google can contact your site, however, there are pages that are inaccessible by the Crawler and cannot be crawled.

•  DNS not found: The domain name is not registered or reachable.

•  Blocked: The robots.txt file is blocked and inaccessible/ unreachable by Google.

•  Unreachable robots.txt: The file robots.txt is misplaced.

• Unreachable: Google was not able to the page after reaching your server. Probably timed out (slow, check load time).

• Temporarily unreachable: Google was not able to reach the page temporarily, may be due to the network or server issue. Try again.

• Error: Google was disallowed from fetching the web page.