Meta is reportedly developing a search engine index for its AI chatbot to reduce reliance on Google for AI-generated summaries of current events. Meta AI appears to be evolving to the next stage of becoming a fully independent AI search engine. Meta-ExternalAgent Meta has been crawling the Internet since at least this past summer from … Read more
There has been some confusion around how Google handles pages that might be more costly for Google Search to crawl, render, index and serve – i.e. JavaScript pages. Google does not have a monetary budget per site, in terms of it will spend $X of crawling budget on your site. Yes, sites do have a … Read more
As part of the DOJ ruling that Google is a monopoly, the document noted that Apple has its own search index and the index size is of billions of websites. The specific number was redacted but it said, “Apple maintains an index of about X billion websites.” This was on page 15 of the document … Read more
There has been a tremendous amount of confusion around the news that Google will stop indexing sites that are completely inaccessible via a mobile phone after July 5th. Google will index sites that are not mobile-friendly – period. But if your site won’t load at all on a mobile device, it just doesn’t load period, … Read more
Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative started just seven and a half years, while we thought it was completed last October, it is now really going to be fully done after July 5th. “The small set of sites we’ve still been crawling with desktop Googlebot will be crawled with mobile Googlebot after July 5, 2024,” John Mueller from Google wrote on … Read more
Google Search can now index Electronic Publication, the .epub, file type. Google added EPUB as a supported filetype to the file types indexable by Google help documentation. This was added over the past 24-hours, but was likely supported a bit before it was added to the documentation: This list includes the most common file types … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about canonicalization, indexing and core algorithm updates that gives a clearer picture of how the different systems work together but independently. A search marketer named David Minchala asked if Google’s canonicalization processes still worked but in a slower manner during a core algorithm update. The answer to that question … Read more
Are you struggling to attract organic traffic to your website? Do you find yourself questioning whether Google has even indexed your site? If you’re experiencing a lack of organic traffic, the reason may be a failure to index your site with Google. When Google fails to index your site or a webpage, it essentially is … Read more
Google updated their emergency and non-emergency image removal guidance with added details that give new clarity to the documentation. Removing Images From Search Index Google offers multiple ways to remove images from the search index on both an emergency and non-emergency basis. There are multiple relatively trivial changes but these are the topics that had … Read more
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2018 and has been updated since to ensure accuracy and to adhere to modern best practices. When you’re an SEO managing a website for years and publishing content consistently, there comes a point where things can seem out of control. You’ve published so many test pages, thank … Read more
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