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Google’s Matt Cutts Explains How Google Search Handles 404 & 410 Status Codes

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today explaining the difference in how Google handles 404 and 410 error status...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 14, 2014 at 2:26 pm ET

Google has confirmed that there are some GoogleBot useragent spiders not properly passing verification protocol. Savvy webmasters noticed that...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 3, 2014 at 12:09 pm ET

John Lincoln from Ignite Visibility spotted a Google Hangout where Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google will use URLs or domain...

Barry Schwartz | Sep 11, 2013 at 4:05 pm ET

Crawling and indexing issues can really put a damper on your efforts to rank well for a variety of competitive and non-competitive terms. ...

Carrie Hill | Mar 5, 2010 at 9:08 am ET

A few days days ago, I noticed some strange Google Analytics data: Googlebot appeared as a browser in the reports. Although this might sound...

Daniel Waisberg | Aug 3, 2009 at 1:12 pm ET