Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the section for the Google Favicon user agent and to clarify that if you want Google to show your favicon you must allow both Googlebot-Image and Googlebot to crawl your pages. Here is what changed in the favicon documentation – you can also compare yourself […]
In May we reported Google was testing a “chat with a live agent” button for some local panels within Google Search. Well, that feature might be rolling out more fully now. Joy Hawkins, a local SEO who is on top of things, said she on X, “First time I’ve been able to spot this chat […]
Google has updated the user agent for the AdsBot Mobile Web Android crawler. If you hard-coded this bot for any purposes on your site, you will want to update your code. The new user agent for AdsBot Mobile Web Android is: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/WXYZ Mobile Safari/537.36 […]
If you want to know how to become a literary agent, you have a great goal. Agents are the link between the writer and the publisher, and largely responsible for making a book go from the writer’s hands into the hands of the public. Without literary agents, traditionally published authors would have an extremely difficult […]
If you want to become an author, you’re going to need to find a literary agent. Agents can help you not only get your book ready to be published, but they can help you get your foot in the door to potential publishers. Finding a publishing company on your own versus trying to find one […]
If you want to become an author, you’re going to need to find a literary agent. Agents can help you not only get your book ready to be published, but they can help you get your foot in the door to potential publishers. Finding a publishing company on your own versus trying to find one […]
Fabrice Canel updated us the other day that now half of all crawling Microsoft Bing does is over the new BingBot user agent. About a month ago, it was 20%, then two months prior to that it what 5%. So it seems things are moving faster to upgrade fully to the new BingBot. Fabrice announced […]
Google has added a new Google crawler, a new user agent, to the Google spider list. Its name is Google Site Verifier User Agent. This user agent ignores robots.txt rules, by the way, and I assume it is used for verifying sites with Search Console and other Google tools and services. Google posted the new […]
Google has updated the user agent string for the AdsBot Mobile Web crawler. Google said if you hard-coded the old user agent string, you will want to make sure to update that in your code. This was updated in the Google crawler documentation. The new user agent string for Google AdsBot Mobile Web is: Mozilla/5.0 […]
Hochberg Sports Marketing is a sports marking agency committed to assisting underserved athletes and companies without Nike-esque budgets in their growth through brand partnerships. HSM athletes compete in niche but expanding sports like the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), AVP Beach Volleyball, and others. HSM has a faithful emphasis on supporting smaller-budget brands break into […]