Google: do not block Googlebot from 404 pages
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should not block Googlebot from crawling 404 pages on your website. That sounds like a really bad idea which will cause all sorts of problems.. You...
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’s Gary Illyes: better do not use JavaScript
Although Google can parse JavaScript pages, it is better not to use JavaScript for critical website elements such as content, links, or redirects. Google’s Gary Illyes has just confirmed this on Twitter. In a...
Google: it’s okay to be hosted on an IP address that also hosts bad websites
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it’s okay to host your website on an IP address that is also used by bad websites. Shared hosting & CDNs on a single IP is really...
Google releases May 2020 core algorithm update
Google has announced a core algorithm update on Twitter. This is the second core update of the 2020 year, the first update was the January 2020 core update. What should you do now? Later...
Google may start deindexing URLs after two days – how to avoid this
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google may start to deindex URLs after two days if your website is down. Depending on how it goes down, we can start dropping URLs after a...
Google: keep redirects active for as long as possible
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should keep URL redirects active for as long as possible. If you change domains, keep the old domain to keep the redirects active. I'd usually try...
Google: slashes work fine in web page titles
A webmaster asked on Twitter whether it was okay to separate words with slashes in the title of a web page (for example word1/word2). Google’s John Mueller said that using slashes in the title...
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...
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...