How to use ChatGPT at work: Expert techniques for beginners
Learn how to use ChatGPT the right way. Skip beginner mistakes and start getting better, more useful answers with this step-by-step guide.
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SEO debugging: A practical framework for fixing visibility issues fast
Learn how to debug SEO issues fast—crawl errors, rendering problems, indexing blockers, ranking drops, and SERP shifts—using a structured diagnostic framework.
Why your site got deindexed from Google and what to do about it
Deindexing isn’t always a penalty. Learn how technical SEO mistakes, crawl issues, and content quality affect Google indexing.
The ultimate guide to HTTP headers for SEO
Learn what HTTP headers are, how they influence website performance and security and best practices for optimization.
Driving traffic to gated content and paywalled sites: SEO tips + examples
Explore SEO tactics to effectively market premium content and drive site traffic while preserving the value of your gated assets.
Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak
Yandex isn't Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.
Technical SEO testing: How Googlebot handles iframes
Here are some test scenarios that may lead Google to index the content inside an iFrame, while assigning that content to its parent URL.
Google adds new robots tag indexifembedded
This new robots tag lets you define if you want your content indexed when it's embedded through iframes or other means.
Google Search algorithm watching; Friday’s daily brief
Make sure not to miss the new more visual changes in Microsoft Bing Search, the new Google My Business reports and the Google Ads mobile app notifications.
SearchCap: Bing Speed Test, Google Maps Driver Mode & Google Confusion
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Predicts Launches AreWeIn.net For NCAA March Madness Basketball FansJan 13, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues Site offers daily analysis of NCAA basketball teams, predicting whether or not they’ll make the tournament […]
Google X: A Secret Lab Where Google Plays With Crazy Ideas & Robots
Light bulbs that connect to the internet? Elevators that reach into space? Robots that show up for work in your place? These are a few of about 100 ideas that Google is reportedly toying with inside Google X, the name of a “top-secret lab” somewhere in the Bay Area. The New York Times wrote about […]
Removing Pages From Google: A Comprehensive Guide For Content Owners
As a site owner, you generally want Google to index as many pages of your site as possible. But there are certainly times when you find that you’ve accidentally let Google index confidential content or other information you don’t want published, and you want to get it removed as quickly as possible. Read on for […]
Choose Your Paid Search Landing Pages Wisely
Paid search landing pages matter. Picking the wrong pages -- as machines usually do -- hurts conversion rates which forces down bids, which shrinks the size of the paid search program.
All Of Your Technical SEO Questions Answered And Bonus Free Developer Summit: Technical SMX East Dream Agenda
Search engine optimization involves a lot of moving parts. Audience analysis, content optimization, rankings factors — it can be hard to pinpoint concrete, actionable data. But technical SEO is a little different. It’s certainly not any easier than the other components, but at least the data can be a bit more straightforward. You can check […]
Google I/O: New Advances In The Searchability of JavaScript and Flash, But Is It Enough?
This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web. HTML 5 is ushering in new era of browser-based development and applications. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, kicked things off with, “My message to you is that this is the beginning of the real win of cloud […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 15, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
L.A. Tech Scene Welcomes Web Dev & SEO Meetup
On the journey from HTML to SERP, a Web site may face a number of potential pitfalls. Pinpointing the obstacles on the path was the focus of the first Jane and Robot meetup in Los Angeles last Tuesday night. Nathan Buggia and Vanessa Fox, the pair behind search and search-friendly web development site JaneAndRobot.com, held […]
Google AJAX Search Results = Death To Search Term Tracking?
Buzz has been growing over the past 4-5 days about what appears to be a new Google search results test that, if widely implemented, might spell doom for SEO rank checking software and some other tools. Many are concerned that it could kill web analytics software, too, but that may not be the case. Google […]
Yahoo Search Weather Update & Support For X-Robots Tag
The Yahoo Blog issued a weather report for changes to rankings in Yahoo Search, along with news that they are now supporting the X-Robots-Tag directive — a way to control indexing of content that cannot accept meta robots tags.
ACAP Launches, Robots.txt 2.0 For Blocking Search Engines?
After a year of discussions, ACAP — Automated Content Access Protocol — was released today as a sort of robots.txt 2.0 system for telling search engines what they can or can’t include in their listings. However, none of the major search engines support ACAP, and its future remains firmly one of "watch and see." Below, […]
Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More
Last week, I covered a new command for the meta robots tag — one to prevent search engines from using Yahoo titles and descriptions. In doing that, a number of questions came up about the meta robots tag syntax itself. Google Webmaster Central has now posted “Using the robots meta tag,” providing some clarity from […]