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...
Category: Technical Issues
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...
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...