Crawling Challenges: What the 2025 Year-End Report Tells Us.

​Join Martin and Gary as they dive into Search Off the Record's Episode 103, unpacking the 2025 Year-End report on crawling issues. Discover fascinating insights on faceted navigation, action parameters, irrelevant parameters and more, highlighting the biggest challenges faced by web crawlers last year. With humor and expert analysis, this episode reveals critical takeaways for webmasters and SEO professionals. Don't miss valuable tips to enhance your site's crawl efficiency!​ Resources: URL structure best practices for Google Search → https://developers.google.com/search/... Crawling December: Faceted navigation → https://developers.google.com/search/... Xkcd (programmer humor) → https://xkcd.com/327/ Episode transcript → https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sea... Listen to more Search Off the Record → https://goo.gle/sotr-yt Subscribe to Google Search Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team. #SOTRpodcast #SEO #GoogleSearch Speakers: Martin Splitt, Gary Illyes