As easy as 1-2-3: how to get a technical audit of your website
Now is a good time for a technical audit of your website. Servers can have problems, links can change, and there can be many other things that can have a negative impact on the...
Category: Technical Issues
Technical issues can have an influence on the rankings of your web pages on search engines.
The articles below help you to learn more about this topic.
Google: HTTP status error codes will eventually remove your listings
Google’s Gary Illyes said on Twitter that Google will eventually remove pages from the index if they show HTTP status error codes such as 429 or 503 for a longer period of time. Fun...
Google: start with the most important pages for hreflang
Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that you should start with the most important pages if you want to translate your website into different languages. According to John Mueller, these pages “get very little...
SEO website audits made easy
A professional SEO website audit can dramatically increase the rankings of your website on Google, Bing and other search engines. Website errors can harm your Google rankings and they lead to a bad user...
Google: links in PDF files are basically nofollow links
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that links in PDF files basically count as nofollow links: “Within PDFs, there’s no way to let us know that a link is is...
Google: data-vocabulary.org markup will no longer be eligible for rich result features
Google announced in their official blog that, as of April 6, 2020, data-vocabulary.org markup will no longer be eligible for Google rich result features. In order to be eligible for Google rich result features...
Google: cookie banners are okay if they do not replace your content
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that cookie banners are fine as long as you do not replace the content of yourw eb pages with an insterstitial: Cookie banners are fine. The thing to...
Google: do not link to non-existent pages on your website
Google said on Twitter that they will remove pages from their index if the page URLs show a 404 HTTP status code. Google also said that you should remove any internal links to those...
Google: there’s no bonus for using a .com domain
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that there is no bonus for using a .com domain. For example, .club is a generic top-level domain just like .com for Google. .club is a generic top...
Google: two things you should know about robots.txt
Google’s John Mueller talked about robots.txt in a recent webmaster hangout. Here are two things that you should know about the robots.txt file on your website. 1. Your subdomains need their own robots.txt files...
Bingbot has turned evergreen
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has announced that they now use an evergreen user-agent: #Bing future user agent is here! This will get roll out to wider set of websites as #Bingbot has turned evergreen....
Technical SEO website audits made easy
Regular technical audits of your website are important. Servers can have problems, links can change, and there can be many other things that can have a negative impact on the search engine rankings of...