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...
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: 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...
When to use server side rendering (SSR) for your JavaScript website
On Google’s Webmaster Conference DACH 2019 in Zurich, Aleksej Dix explained when to use server side rendering (SSR) if you have a JavaScript based website. What is server side rendering? Server rendering generates the...
Google: we don’t index all pages in a sitemap
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not index all pages that are in a sitemap. He also said that it was impossible to index all pages on the web. Which issue...
Google: there is no indexing limit
A webmaster asked on Twitter if there was a maximum amount of static pages Google can index for one static website? According to the webmaster, the limit used to be 250 static pages, and...