robots.txt Turns 30, Why Web Crawlers Ignore Your Typos
1 days ago
robots.txt is 30 years old and is virtually error-free because parsers ignore mistakes, ensuring the...
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Google Explains Why Soft 404s Are Bad for SEO
4 days 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
7 days ago
Gary Illyes from Google advises not to worry excessively about 404 errors. A 404 status code indicat...
Google Warns of Sudden Crawl Increase: Check for Infinite Spaces, Hacked Content
12 days ago
Google warns that a sudden increase in crawling can indicate both positive and negative issues. Comm...
Google's Gary Illyes Urges Disallowing Crawling of Action URLs to Save Server Resources
20 days ago
Google's Gary Illyes encourages users to disallow crawling of action URLs to save server resources a...