BusinessTools
Bing updates its Webmaster Guidelines
How the search engine crawls, indexes and ranks content.
BusinessTools
GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts
Say hello to Google‘s serial cart abandoner John Smith.
BusinessResources
SEO myth-busting
What is not a Google search ranking factor.
BusinessOpinions
Google Says It Is Unlikely Core Web Vitals Will Become The Primary Ranking Factor
This should come as no surprise to most of you.
BusinessOpinions
How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEO
Google starts to index individual passages from the pages.
BusinessTools
Microsoft list of Bingbot IP addresses released
Bing follows Google and publishes a list of Bingbot IP addresses.
BusinessTools
Google is working on AI search feature
Sundar Pichai confirmed the company’s plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
BusinessTools
Favicons no longer need to be hosted on the same domain
Google Search now displays your website’s favicon even if it’s located elsewhere.
DevelopmentResources
Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt
Generative AI would require new machine-readable methods.
DevelopmentResources
OpenAI’s ChatGPT new web crawler
You can now ask it not to access your website in robots.txt.
BusinessResources
Google algorithm updates 2023
An overview of all confirmed updates of the year.
BusinessTools
Google sitemaps ping endpoints no longer work
The search giant has officially deprecated the feature.
BusinessTools
Google updates image removal documentation
Clarifications on how you can delist your website images.
BusinessTools
Google warns
Sites that are inaccessible on mobile will not be indexed.
DevelopmentResources
When you should fix pages 404 status codes
Google says “Fix those that actually will help users.”
BusinessTools
Google Cache is fully dead
Wayback Machine links have replaced cached pages.
DevelopmentResources
Google clarified support for robots.txt fields
Directives such as ‘crawl-delay’ are not supported.
BusinessTools
Bing removes cache link from search results
Microsoft follows Google’s earlier removal of the cache link.
DevelopmentTools
Google AI Mode is here
How to access it and control it with robots.txt.
BusinessTools
AI search engines are wrong too often
Study results on ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.