SEO: Crawling and Robots
SEO for reactive JavaScript using React or Vue with NodeJS and other backend stacks
How to get SEO-friendly website pages to feel like there's magic burbling up beneath...
Bing revamps Site Explorer in new Bing Webmaster Tools
This tool gives SEOs information on how Microsoft Bing does just that and then gives you more data on clicks, impressions, links, errors,...
GoogleBot to soon crawl over HTTP/2
While HTTP/2 should result in efficiency improvements, there is no ranking benefit to this...
How to earn your place in Google’s index in 2020
The four distinct types of indexing problems and how to identify...
Bing’s new robots.txt tester can help SEOs identify crawling issues
The new Bing Webmaster Tool can also be used to edit robots.txt files and check URLs for errors...
Bing Webmaster Tools gets a new robots.txt tester
Here is another tool you can use from Bing to see how BingBot can or cannot access your web pages....
Google delays mobile-first indexing deadline to March 2021
Due to the pandemic, Google pushed the deadline from September...
WSJ: GoogleBot can add products to shopping carts
Make sure to double check those abandoned cart metrics; they may be inflated....
Common JavaScript errors that can harm your SEO [Video]
And, why JavaScript may not be the real cause of your crawling...
Why the evergreen Googlebot is such a big deal [Video]
Google’s Martin Splitt discusses the effort behind making Googlebot ‘evergreen’ in this clip from Live with Search Engine...
Common oversights that can impede Google from crawling your content [Video]
SEOs and developers shouldn’t over-engineer workarounds when basic, reliable solutions already exist, says Martin Splitt in this clip from...
Technical SEO for Shopify: A guide to optimizing your store for search engines
How to address the technical limitations in Shopify to improve your store’s search...
How Google crawls and indexes: a non-technical explanation [Video]
Google’s Martin Splitt provides a simple summary of the processes that pave the way for ranking search...
Shopify SEO Guide: How to increase organic traffic to your store
SEO tips to fully optimize your Shopify site for higher rankings and more...
Bing migrates Submit URL, Block URL and Crawl Control to the new Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools will be fully revamped by July, Bing’s Fabrice Canel said at SMX...
Don’t try to reinvent the SEO wheel, says Google’s Martin Splitt
Splitt addresses the most common indexing and JavaScript mistakes, why he doesn’t take ranking questions and shares why Google’s...
The right way to apply JavaScript to your links for SEO
Google’s Martin Splitt explains why fragment identifiers don’t get crawled and the importance of href...
Mixed Directives: A reminder that robots.txt files are handled by subdomain and protocol, including www/non-www and http/https [Case Study]
Since robots.txt files impact crawling, it’s important for site owners to understand how they are treated by search engines. Columnist Glenn...
Online tax-filing services can no longer hide free services from Google Search results
TurboTax and others are prohibited from noindexing their free e-file landing pages, per new IRS...
Screaming Frog releases SEO Spider version 12.0
The update adds PageSpeed Insights API integration and...