Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about a commonly used robots meta tag and what would happen if it was missing. Mueller’s answer, while it makes sense and is documented, may still come as a surprise to many publishers and SEOs. Robots Meta Tag The HTML meta element...
In the latest installment of Google’s monthly office-hours Q&A session, a question was asked regarding the higher volume of filtered data compared to overall data in Google Search Console. The question prompted a detailed response from Gary Illyes, a Google Search Relations team member,...
YouTube recently provided creators with more details on how its Shorts algorithm works during an interview with Todd Sherman, the product lead for YouTube Shorts. The discussion aimed to clear up common misconceptions creators have about the Shorts algorithm and how it differs from...
Google has now added new details that explain the three categories its Google crawlers fall into, they include Googlebot, special-case crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. In addition, Google now lists a JSON formatted file containing the list of IP addresses each of these different...
Google’s annual Webspam Report covering 2022 highlighted all the ways their SpamBrain anti-spam system became more adept at catching multiple forms of spam. While the report is mainly about reporting how much more spam they caught compared to the year before, the bits about how SpamBrain...
