The stories about Crawling & Indexing from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
Not every page on a site needs to be — or should be — indexed and competing for search visibility. Understanding when strategic noindexing genuinely helps versus when it's unnecessary or…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
Crawl budget refers to the finite amount of attention and resources a search engine allocates to crawling any given site within a given period. For small sites this is rarely a limiting factor, but…
Crawling & Indexing
I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified their pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the…
Crawling & Indexing
Googlebot does not crawl every page on your site every day. It works within…
Crawling & Indexing
Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
