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...
Category: Technical Issues
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...
New in SEOprofiler: 56 new top level domains (a total of 7,439 TLDs)
The top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is .com....
Bing also uses algorithms similar to BERT
Microsoft announced in a blog post with the title “Bing delivers its largest improvement in search experience using Azure GPUs” that it’s search engine Bing uses BERT algorithms since April 2019. “Recently, there was...
Google: mixed HTTP/HTTPS content may break pages for Googlebot
Google announced on the official Google Webmaster Twitter account that mixed content may break your pages for users and Googlebot. If you moved to HTTPS and Chrome doesn't show a gray lock icon, there's...
Google: malware reviews are fast, hacked content takes longer
If your website has been hacked, Google might show a warning label next to your website in the search results. What is hacked content? According to Google, hacked content is ‘any content placed on...
Google: it’s good to understand HTTP status codes (and how to check your website codes)
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that it’s good to understand that the different HTTP status codes that your web pages can send. It's good to understand the difference between 200, (301/302), (404/410), 500,...
Google: improve your web pages if your robots.txt file is ranking for normal queries
If your robots.txt file or your sitemap file is ranking for normal queries, you should improve the quality of your web pages. That’s what Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter: Use the x-robots-tag HTTP...
Google: we don’t index JavaScript content that requires user interaction
Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout on YouTube that Google won’t index dynamically created content if it requires an interaction from the website visitor. “You’re saying this is behind JavaScript functions. There’s...
Google: there are no BERT scores
Google’s Danny Sullivan said on Twitter that BERT doesn’t assign values to pages. It’s just a way for Google to better understand language. BERT is about sentences and phrases. There are other ways to...
Google won’t support Flash anymore
Google announced that they will stop supporting Flash later this year. In Web pages that contain Flash content, Google Search will ignore the Flash content. Google Search will stop indexing standalone SWF files. Most...
Google announces ‘the biggest leap forward in the past five years’
Google has announced a major change to the ranking algorithm. According to Google, it’s “a significant improvement to how [Google understands] queries, representing the biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one...