As many of you know, Google is now in court over its monopoly ruling by the Department of Justice before the court rules on the remedy for such a ruling. The ruling may not come for a year or so, and Google will be in court for some time. But where are all those documents … Read more
Google announces the general availability of the Structured Data Files (SDF) QA format for Display & Video 360, enhancing bulk review capabilities for advertisers. Why we care. This update simplifies the process of reviewing resource settings in bulk, making campaign management more efficient for advertisers using Display & Video 360. Key details: The SDF QA … Read more
Google is phasing out an older version of its Structured Data Files (SDF) format used in Display & Video 360, its enterprise-level advertising platform. Why we care. This change affects advertisers and partners using SDF v6, requiring them to migrate to newer versions to maintain uninterrupted service. Key details: SDF v6 will be deprecated on … Read more
Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index. EPUB File Format EPUB is an XML-based eBook publishing format based on a standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, which in 2016 was subsequently merged … Read more
WordPress version 6.5 now supports including the lastmod element within sitemaps files, which can help search engines understand which pieces of content are new or updated. This can help improve crawl efficiency for search engine crawlers and reduce server load on your website. Lastmod. Lastmod is an element that you can add to your sitemap … Read more
Introduction AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service from AWS which provides flexibility to work with both Snowflake tables and S3 files. AWS Glue Python shell allows to use additional python libraries (In our case, snowflake-connector-python) which helps in retrieval of data from snowflake and to run the queries directly in Snowflake with Snowflake … Read more
Gary Illyes shared a nice little tidbit on LinkedIn about robots.txt files. He said that only a tiny number of robots.txt files are over 500 kilobytes. I mean, most robots.txt files have a few lines of text, so this makes sense but still, it is a nice tidbit of knowledge. Gary looked at over a … Read more
Google quietly updated their Google Search Central documentation to note that they are now indexing .csv files. This opens up a new way to get crawled or if a publisher doesn’t want their .csv files crawled, it may mean updating robots.txt to exclude those files. Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Comma-separated values (CSV) files are text files … Read more
Google has updated the help document for file types indexable by Google to include Comma-Separated Values (.csv) in the list. I doubt Google was not bale to index those files before, and I wonder if this was just a documentation change but not a change in what Google was able to index? The help document … Read more
Google Search has added to its file types indexable by Google help document that it can now index Comma-Separated Values (.csv) files. I confirmed with John Mueller of Google that this is not just a help document update but a new update to Google Search in what it can index. More details. I spotted the … Read more
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