Google confirms AJAX (i.e. XHR) calls consume crawl budget
One more thing to look at if you need to optimize your crawl budget for the most efficient Googlebot crawl of your...
Apr 23, 2019 at 11:05 am ET
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM topics.
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AMP to support custom JavaScript with amp-script
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4% of the Google index hit by de-indexing bug, Moz data shows
Now that the Google de-indexing issue is resolved, how bad was...
Google says de-indexing issue is fixed
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Google Search Console adds Discover report
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Google Search Console adds Android app filters to performance report
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Not fixed yet - but Google is working on it and has been communicating better about the...
Google data shows Page Speed update resulted in 15-20% speed increases among slower sites
Webmasters, developers, SEOs and site owners took notice and the results are in: The web is faster, according to...
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Don't panic if you see new issues and spikes in errors in the Google Search Console enhancement reports....
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Company adds new icons next to results categories. Do you see...
Google drops more reports from old Google Search Console
There is not much left in the old Google Search Console at this...
Ahrefs, SEO toolset provider, to build their own search engine to compete with Google
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