Robots.txt best practice guide, part 2: Setting up your robots.txt file

Part two of our article on “Robots.txt best practice guide + examples” talks about how to set up your newly created robots.txt file.

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Robots.txt best practice guide, part 2: Setting up your robots.txt file

Part two of our article on “Robots.txt best practice guide + examples” talks about how to set up your newly created robots.txt file.

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A survival kit for SEO-friendly JavaScript websites

How to enable the usage of JavaScript frameworks while keeping the search engine bots happy? Where should SEOs start from? Key guidelines shared.

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Cybersecurity in SEO: How website security affects SEO performance

Websites suffer an average of 58 attacks every day. Here is a very thorough, careful overview of how these attacks can seriously impact on your SEO.

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Google’s Matt Cutts Explains The Differences Between 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 codes. Both 404 and 410s are errors for a web page or document not being available, however a 410 is defined as “gone” forever. So 410s are more…

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Google: Unlinked URLs Are A Source For Indexing New Content

John Lincoln from Ignite Visibility spotted a Google Hangout where Google’s John Mueller confirmed that Google will use URLs or domain names within content that are unlinked, i.e. without an a href attribute, to discover and index new pages of content. John went on to add that typically no…

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