Google’s Gary Illyes posted on LinkedIn with two common examples of when a spike in Googlebot activity, crawling, is a bad thing. The short answer is when Googlebot gets to crawling an infinite section of your site (like calendar pages that goes on forever) and when your site is hacked with a ton of new … Read more
After a few days of calm Google weather, we are now seeing a spike in volatility, fluctuations and SEO chatter around Google search ranking movement. It is somewhat early on but I am seeing both a spike in SEOs noticing ranking movement and many of the tools are showing a spike in volatility. So there … Read more
There has been a surge in complaints from site owners and publishers who are seeing the “Video is not the main content of the page” error in the video indexing section of Google Search Console. This should come as no surprise to many of you who read here, as Google told us this may occur … Read more
For the past several days there has been a significant increase in the number of complaints about a Google Search Console error that reads “failed hostload exceeded.” This error is happening within Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool after a user tries to use the “request indexing” feature. It seems based on early communication from … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question on why one might see a sudden spike in indexed URLs by Google Search. The short answer is that there can be a ton of reasons, so it is hard to answer the question without the specific domain. But Gary did say these three reasons why Google might increase … Read more
April 18, 2016 | Posted by Shay Harel As the dust settles on this past week’s SERP performance we’ve seen the rise and fall of some familiar SERP faces. In our quest to see who has appeared, who has has disappeared, and who disappeared only to reappear again (and so forth), let’s begin … Read more
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