Category: Search Engine Roundtable

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter the other day that Google’s crawlers, GoogleBot, crawls the web stateless, i.e. without cookies. This is something Google has said many times over the years, but I don’t think I ever covered this basic fact…
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I am a big fan of analogies, espesially funny ones so when I spotted Gary Illyes of Google use one to describe the difference between the Google Cache and the Fetch as Google tool in Google Search Console, I had to share it with you…

Google has posted in the Google Search Console data anomalies page that they have lost about 19 days worth of data for any new Google Search Console user who signed up between June 21, 2017 and July 10…

Aaron Bradly posted on Google+ that Google recently updated video structured data type to add support for image search. Google added “your video rich results can also display in image search on mobile devices…

As you know, in May, Google began rolling out a job search feature in Google Search. Shortly after, they announced the job posting schema which was being tested for some time…

Go to Google and search for [school holidays] and at the top you will see a featured snippet, which now includes both the textual answer and an image. If you see what I do…

As many of you know, since you are advanced technical SEOs, /page and /page.html technically are different URLs and different pages. But often, web servers are configured to make the page the same, so if you go to /page or /page…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that is not always the best cast to redirect users (or bots) by the location of the IP address of that user or bot. He said it can often not only “break indexing” but also “frustrate users.”

As you know, most of …

Back in the old days, Google used the location of the server and ccTLD to figure out if your site should be ranked in a specific localized version of Google. So if you had a .fr and your server was based in France…

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that if you have an exact match domain, aka EMD, it doesn’t give you a magic ranking bonus in Google. John said “there’s no magic EMD bonus…