Should we be scared of a 404?
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Watch the full episode right now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJcuRhx08ek 👻
Do 404 "Not Found" status codes trigger site wide disasters or haunt your crawl budget? Should you redirect every dead URL straight to your homepage? 👻 ...And the most terrifying question of all:…
In this episode of Google Search News, John Mueller shares major updates across Search Console, Google Search, and publisher tools! John highlights the official global launch of Platform Properties…
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Can you use ⛔ emoji to keep crawlers out? What about ASCII art chicken or non English characters in your robots.txt file? And can robots.txt tell AI bots to stay out of chicken's personal diary? Is…
Watch the full episode for the whole chicken saga 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfvw43BbHy0 on @GoogleSearchCentral Can you actually put a 🐔 emoji in your domain name? What about the URL path?…
Can you put a chicken emoji 🐔in your domain name? What about your URL path? What about non-English characters? Welcome to the premiere of The Non-Canonical Cabinet—a series where Google Search…
Should you publish your content as a PDF or stick strictly to standard HTML? Does Google treat PDF files differently when it comes to indexing, ranking, and AI search features? In this episode of…
New series coming soon! Have a bizarre, highly specific Google Search question that doesn't quite fit into the standard documentation? You're not alone. Welcome to the trailer for The Non-Canonical…
Sitemaps have been a core element of web development and search engine optimization for two decades, yet Search Console warnings like "Couldn't fetch" continue to generate concern among site owners.…
Google では、日本のサイト運営者のみなさまに向けて、2013 年より検索のご質問にお答えするオフィスアワーを定期的に行ってきました。幾度かのリブランディングを経て、2023 年 5 月より新しく Google 検索オフィスアワーとなりました。 Google 検索オフィスアワーでは、SEO 担当者、エンジニア、デザイナー、マーケティングなどサイトの運営に関わる皆さんからの、Google…
Is your website’s internal search feature secretly acting as an open invitation for crawling lots and lots? In this episode of Search off the Record, Martin Splitt and John Mueller pull back the…
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