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.
A page that isn't linked from anywhere, sits behind a login, or requires a form submission to reach essentially doesn't exist to a search engine, no matter how well-written its content is.…
Crawling & Indexing
You’ve probably noindex-ed pages you don’t want showing up in search. It’s a solid practice for product variants or paid destination pages, and it works for Google rankings.
Crawling & Indexing E-commerce
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.
