How search engines find, fetch, render and store pages: crawl budget, robots.txt, sitemaps, canonicals, JavaScript rendering and index coverage. Problems here come before any ranking question — a page that is not crawled and indexed cannot rank, however good it is.
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“Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” and “Blocked by robots.txt” are Google Search Console statuses. They indicate that the affected pages […]
Crawling & Indexing Measurement
Read on Onely →Google's John Mueller was interviewed by David Iwanow, where he shared information on AI-generated content, the future of SEO, technical SEO, the crawl stats report, redirect chains, ecommerce…
Crawling & Indexing Content & Quality
Read on Search Engine Roundtable →Decodo has introduced Web Data API, combining scraping, searching, mapping, and crawling under one key for AI agents and retrieval pipelines.
Read on SEJ — Generative AI →Summary in a nutshell What is Noindex Tag? The HTML “noindex” tag is an SEO directive used to prevent search […]
Read on Onely →“Discovered – currently not indexed” in Google Search Console means Google knows the URL exists but has not crawled it […]
Crawling & Indexing Measurement
Read on Onely →Technical SEO is the foundation everything else sits on. The best content in your niche will not rank if search engines cannot crawl it, choose not to index it, cannot render it, or cannot work out…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing Site Architecture
Read on SEO-Serps Blog →There have been a number of reports recently of sites struggling to be properly indexed following a site migration. I have consulted with a few sites on this issue and have developed a theory. Please…
Crawling & Indexing Site Architecture
Read on Marie Haynes →The swag is loaded, the team are packing their bags, and we’ve had a quick look at the forecast for the south coast. Let’s just say you might be glad of some of our merch this time round (hint hint).…
Read on Screaming Frog →Most SEO teams have a set of numbers they check every week: indexed pages,…
Read on Oncrawl →Over the years, the Search Central YouTube channel has published hundreds of videos across various series, from Search for Beginners and Ask Googlebot to Search Console Training and Search Off the…
Read on Google Search Central →We’re packing our bags for our 4th trip to San Diego, heading back to one of our favourite events of the year: brightonSEO San Diego. This year’s edition takes place on the 15th and 16th September,…
Read on Screaming Frog →Googlebot does not crawl every page on your site every day. It works within…
Read on Oncrawl →I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified their pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the…
Read on Marie Haynes →Search indexing was built to help humans decide what to read. Grounding is being built to help AI systems decide what to say and simultaneously helping people to verify, refine, or challenge what the…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing AI Search & Visibility
Read on Bing Search Blog →We’ve packed our bags, triple-checked the weather forecast (don’t want to jinx it, but it’s looking 👌), and we’re getting ready to crawl our way down to the coast. The Screaming Frog team is…
Read on Screaming Frog →As SEOs, we obsess over performance. Speed. Crawl efficiency. Core Web Vitals. Conversions. But we rarely talk about the environmental cost of what we ship. The internet now accounts for roughly 4%…
Crawling & Indexing Speed & Core Web Vitals
Read on Screaming Frog →AI search is redefining how content is discovered and ranked, but sitemaps still matter. When paired with IndexNow, they provide the structure and speed search engines need to keep your content…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
Read on Bing Webmaster Blog →Search is evolving and so has Bing Webmaster Tools. With expanded search data, crawl diagnostics, indexing insights, keyword performance, URL inspection, and IndexNow integration, you’ll have the…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing
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