{"id":12113,"date":"2026-07-21T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:53:36","slug":"google-storebot-accessibility-issues-help-document-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=12113","title":{"rendered":"Google StoreBot Accessibility Issues Help Document Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-storebot-hero-PDB5aErW.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Storebot Hero\" title=\"Google StoreBot Accessibility Issues Help Document Updated\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google has updated the help document named How to fix: Google StoreBot crawler can\u2019t access your in-store product page. The document has a number of big updates with a lot of clarifications including the user-agents, checking robots.txt, blocking IP addresses, page speed issues, reprocessing and how long it takes for your landing pages to be reprocessed.<\/p> <p>Google wrote in the updated document, &#8220;Once accessibility is restored, it typically takes 12 to 48 hours for the system to reflect these changes and for products to be approved.&#8221; Google said this &#8220;time allows us to verify that we can crawl the landing pages that are provided, after which the products will start showing up in your local inventory ads again.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Google then documented the common ways merchants use to block Google&#8217;s crawlers<br \/> (including StoreBot, Googlebot, and Googlebot-image) which include robots.txt, user-agent switching, blocking IP addresses, firewall blocking, fingerprinting and page load speed issues.<\/p> <p>Here are all the documented changes from the old version to the new version of this page:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-storebot-doc-changes-tmsdfqwP.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Storebot Doc Changes\" title=\"Google StoreBot Accessibility Issues Help Document Updated\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>If you use Google Merchant Center, this is worth a read.<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #StoreBot #Accessibility #Issues #Document #Updated1784609616<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated the help document named How to fix: Google StoreBot crawler can\u2019t access your in-store product page. The document has a number of big updates with a lot of clarifications including the user-agents, checking robots.txt, blocking IP addresses, page speed issues, reprocessing and how long it takes for your landing pages to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[39023,15875,75,1747,47680,6919],"class_list":["post-12113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-accessibility","tag-document","tag-google","tag-issues","tag-storebot","tag-updated"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}