Google Warns About Hidden Dangers of URL Parameter Proliferation
3 months ago
Google's Search Relations team warns about unintended URL proliferation in website management. URLs ...
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Google Discusses Advanced Web Security: Implications for Crawling and Authentication
3 months ago
Google's Gary Illyes discussed SSL/TLS and mutual TLS (mTLS), emphasizing their roles in secure web ...
Google Alerts Remains Relevant for Web Monitoring
3 months ago
Google Alerts remains relevant and effective, offering email notifications, customizable searches, a...
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Google Explains robots.txt Is Not a Security Measure for Web Content
3 months ago
Gary Illyes, a Google analyst, clarified that robots.txt cannot prevent unauthorized access to web c...
Google Warns Against Relying Solely on AI-Generated Answers
3 months ago
Google’s Gary Illyes warned against relying solely on AI-generated answers, stressing the need to ve...
Google Explains How to Use CDN-Hosted robots.txt Files
4 months ago
Google challenges the belief that a website's robots.txt file must be at the root domain. Websites c...
robots.txt Turns 30, Why Web Crawlers Ignore Your Typos
4 months ago
robots.txt is 30 years old and is virtually error-free because parsers ignore mistakes, ensuring the...
Google Explains Why Soft 404s Are Bad for SEO
4 months ago
Soft 404s and other hidden errors are problematic for web crawlers. When a page returns an HTTP 200 ...
Google Explains When to Fix 404 Errors
5 months ago
Gary Illyes from Google advises not to worry excessively about 404 errors. A 404 status code indicat...