Google's Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins

by Admin | February 04, 2026

Google's Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins

Google’s crawl team has been filing bugs directly against WordPress plugins that waste crawl budget at scale. Gary Illyes, Analyst at Google, shared the details on the latest Search Off the Record podcast. His team filed an issue against WooCommerce after identifying its add-to-cart URL parameters as a top source of crawl waste. WooCommerce picked up the bug and fixed it quickly.

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