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.
Google reminds sites to use 503s during PHP patch downtime. Other updates cover robots.txt controls, bracket URLs, and JPEG XL in Google Images and Discover.
Crawling & Indexing
Google's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding non-English robots.txt paths.
Crawling & Indexing Content & Quality
Summary in a nutshell What is Noindex Tag? The HTML “noindex” tag is an SEO directive used to prevent search […]
Crawling & Indexing
“Discovered – currently not indexed” in Google Search Console means Google knows the URL exists but has not crawled it […]
Crawling & Indexing Measurement
Assembled from our own archive of 1,108 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.
