New in SEOprofiler: the Uptime Monitor
We have just added a new tool to SEOprofiler. The new Uptime Monitor in SEOprofiler makes it easy to monitor your websites and servers. It is better than other uptime monitors (see below to...
Category: Technical Issues
Official Google information: how to migrate from HTTP to HTTPS
Moving your website from HTTP to HTTPS can give your pages a slight ranking boost, and it makes browsing your website more secure. On his Google+ page, Google’s Gary Illyes posted information on how...
New results format in Google: rich cards
Google has introduced a new format for the search results pages: rich cards are a new search result format building on the success of rich snippets: How do rich cards work? Just like rich...
Official: how Google handles redirects
Google’s John Mueller posted an official explanation of how Google handles different URL redirects. Does this affect the rankings of your web pages? Do you have to change anything? What is a redirect? A...
Google’s John Mueller: HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO
On his Google+ page, Google’s John Mueller made clear that HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO: “HTTP/2 has no impact on SEO. Search engine crawlers (even if they don’t support HTTP/2 yet, like Googlebot)...
Temporary technical problems [solved]
One of the cloud server providers that we use for SEOprofiler has some technical problems. This affects the updates of some ranking reports, some website audit reports and some weekly opportunity reports. We’re working...
Google: how to move from HTTP to HTTPS
In a post on Google+, Google’s John Mueller explained the things that you should do if you are moving your website from HTTP to HTTPS on the same hostname. Step 1: add the HTTPS...
Google: it is better if your web pages have valid HTML
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout that it is better to have a website with valid HTML: “This came up recently with the change of the guidelines, with regards to change made...
How to help Googlebot to index your web pages in three steps
Every website owner wants to get as many high rankings on Google as possible. You can lead Google and other search engine bots to the most important pages of your websites. Make sure that...
Experiment: does Google crawl dynamic content?
Earlier this year, Sander Nagetegaal from Centrical.com did a series of experiments to find out if Google crawls dynamic content. What did he find out and what does this mean to the Google rankings...
Google: avoid commas, semicolons, spaces and special characters in URLs
In a help thread on in a webmaster forum, Google’s John Mueller said that you should avoid special characters in URLs: “I generally recommend avoiding special characters like commas, semicolons, colons, spaces, quotes etc....
Update: the server problems have been solved
The attack on our servers has been blocked. Everything works as expected now.
