Gary Illyes from Google posted how serving a 304 HTTP server status code can “backfire spectacularly,” even though the 304 can be a super useful signal for search engines. Gary Illyes wrote on LinkedIn, “HTTP 304 (not modified) is super useful to signal crawlers that the content they’re accessing hasn’t changed since it was last … Read more
About a week ago, Google did its last batch of moving sites to mobile-first indexing and some mobile-friendly sites were still noticing their sites were being reported as being crawled using desktop indexing. It turns out, there is a reporting bug in Google Search Console that may show the wrong mobile indexing status for some … Read more
During Google’s April 2023 SEO Office Hours, a website owner asked Gary Illyes, Analyst at Google, whether giving Googlebot a different HTTP status code from the one served to human visitors would be acceptable. Specifically, they wanted to serve an HTTP status code of 410 (Gone) to Googlebot while giving users a 200 (OK) status … Read more
Google has added a new section to the Google Search Status Dashboard – Ranking. The Ranking section will show the confirmed Google ranking updates that Google already posts on its Google updates page. So now we have crawling, indexing, serving and ranking – ranking being the new one – on this Google Search Status Dashboard. … Read more
Google is adding a new “ranking” section to the Google Search Status dashboard it launched last December. The new ranking section will include active and historical Google algorithm updates, so that you can see what changed with Google Search related to ranking, not just crawling, indexing or serving. New dashboard. Here is what the new … Read more
What Are HTTP Status Codes? An HTTP status code is a three-digit number a server generates in response to a browser’s request. Like 404, for example, which you’ve likely seen before. Every time you visit a website, your browser sends a request to the site’s server. Then, the server responds with an HTTP code status. … Read more
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