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Google Checks 4 Billion Host Names Every Day

Did you know that Google Search checks about four billion host names each and every day for robots.txt purposes? Gary Illyes said in the December Search Off The Record podcast “we have about four billion host names that we check every single day for robots.txt.” He said this at the 20:31 mark in the video. […]

Google Rich Result Test Now Checks Paywalled Content material Structured Information

Google upgraded the Rich Result Test now to support the validation of structured data for paywalled content. This means you can check live sites, any site, to see if they are implementing the paywalled content structured data properly and if Google Search understands that URL has paywalled content or not. Google also added a section […]

Google Local Service Ads permits various background checks

Ben Fisher spotted an update to the Google Local Service Ads help docs around the review and approval process for businesses. Google Added section That says companies can require their “own dedicated background checking partner” to do the verification. The newly added paragraph reads: “Companies that have their own dedicated background checking partner and process […]