Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt in wake of generative AI and other emerging technologies
Google said it will engage with the web and AI communities with public discussions during this process.
Topic: Web indexing
Google no longer recommends canonical tags for syndicated content
Instead, Google says block your syndicated content from being indexed.
Study: 31% of international websites contain hreflang errors
Conflicting hreflang directives and missing self-referencing tags are among the widespread issues plaguing international websites today.
This day in search marketing history: March 26
More sites move to Google mobile-first indexing, plus: Google penalizes entire site over one guest blog post, Google Maps logo bomb and more.
Bing Webmaster Tools to gain Bing Chat and index coverage reporting
Microsoft said they will be adding reporting and tools to Bing Webmaster Tools to help publishers understand how Bing Chat users interact with their sites.
JavaScript rendering and indexing: Cautionary tales and how to avoid them
The results of a JavaScript rendering and indexing experiment highlight some challenges of running JS-dependent content.
The ultimate recipe for writing SEO content
Approach good content as if you were in your kitchen ready to cook up a tasty dish.
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.
Site taxonomy for SEO: A straightforward guide
In this guide: learn why website taxonomy is fundamental to SEO success and how to optimize site taxonomies.
Google confirmed indexing issue affecting a large number of sites
If you are not seeing traffic from Google for new content you published, you are not alone.
How content consolidation can improve your SEO performance
Does your content align with what Google shows on Page 1? If not, consolidating pages could improve your SEO performance. Here's how.
How to create a multi-site indexing monitoring system using the URL Inspection API and Analytics Edge
In this tutorial, you'll learn a step-by-step process you can use to create a multisite URL Inspection monitoring system.
8 SEO tools to get Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights
Discover some free tools, SEO crawler integrations, and scripts to leverage with Google Search Console URL Inspection API insights.
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.
3 ways to check technical SEO health issues on your website
Technical SEO is vital to keep your website healthy. At SMX Next, Ashley Berman Hale shows how marketers can review their site's crawl stats, rendering and indexing.
How to optimize your site for better findability
An optimized site structure serves as the foundation for SEO success. At SMX Create, Niki Mosier shared how to strengthen those foundations and identify opportunities for greater search visibility.
IndexNow – new initiative by Microsoft and Yandex to push content to search engines
Google seems to currently not be participating in this initiative.
Google’s tool to report indexing bugs is now available in the U.S.
The tool provides a way for SEOs to escalate their issues with Google Search.
Google rankings fluctuation, pages are dropping and reappearing in the index; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, structured data testing tool changes.
Google lets you report an indexing issue
US users can now communicate to Google if you have indexing issues that you cannot figure out.
Mobile-first indexing, site downtime, static headlines and rich results; Friday’s daily brief
Plus the Google algorithm updates continue, including a local search update.
Google updates the Search Console coverage report
The updated report now gives you very specific categories and labels for errors and responses.
Bing Webmaster Tools adds crawl requests, crawl errors & indexed pages to performance report
You can now see crawling and indexing data directly in the search performance report.
Google Search Console brings back request indexing tool
After 69 days of it not working, it is now back up and running.
Google confirms it doesn’t index passages separately
Google now "consider passages from pages as an additional ranking factor."
99% of Google’s indexing issues fully resolved
There are some edge cases left with the indexing bug but those should be resolved within a couple of weeks.
How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEO
Google will begin passage based indexing later this year for English languages. It is a ranking change, not an indexing change.
Bing revamps Site Explorer in new Bing Webmaster Tools
This tool gives SEOs information on how Microsoft Bing does just that and then gives you more data on clicks, impressions, links, errors, warnings, indexing issues and much more.
Status update on the Google indexing bugs
99% of the mobile-indexing URLs are restored and 55% of the canonical URLs are restored.
More Google Search bugs: Top stories indexing snag, coverage report delays
Google had yet another indexing issue and the search coverage report in Search Console is very delayed.
Google Search bug caused by issue with its ‘indexing systems’
Google said it was an issue with indexing that caused Monday's really weird search results.
A Google Search bug wreaked havoc on the search results Monday night
The issue lasted several hours yesterday, putting the SEO community in a bit of panic mode.
Google site command bug being fixed
Google has confirmed the issue was resolved at 3:25pm ET.
Bing updates its Webmaster Guidelines
These new Bing guidelines discuss the fundamental principles behind how Bing crawls, indexes and ranks content - make sure to review them.
Google confirms fixing issue with indexing Disqus comments
It is not clear how many blogs were impacted by this Google issue but it is now resolved.
Google confirmed indexing issues causing some stale results
Google is aware of the issue and is actively working on a fix.
Common JavaScript errors that can harm your SEO [Video]
And, why JavaScript may not be the real cause of your crawling issues.
Common oversights that can impede Google from crawling your content [Video]
SEOs and developers shouldn’t over-engineer workarounds when basic, reliable solutions already exist, says Martin Splitt in this clip from Live with Search Engine Land.
Bing migrates Submit URL, Block URL and Crawl Control to the new Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools will be fully revamped by July, Bing’s Fabrice Canel said at SMX London.
Don’t try to reinvent the SEO wheel, says Google’s Martin Splitt
Splitt addresses the most common indexing and JavaScript mistakes, why he doesn’t take ranking questions and shares why Google’s communications aren’t always as proactive as we’d like.