Google’s John Mueller said that simply adding individual pages won’t impact how Google crawls your site. Crawl budget generally is only impacted by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pages – not individual pages here or there. If you have a site in the low hundreds of thousands of pages, I doubt you need […]
In this show we have everything for you from creepy crawlies to blood sucking vampires and walking zombies. First, we’ve had a couple of unconfirmed updates to Google’s search algorithm this week, one last weekend, the second on Monday, and the third on Wednesday and Thursday. Google said they don’t release algorithm updates specifically ahead […]
Glenn Gabe noted that he’s been observing some strange Google bot activity recently and said he’s seeing “crawling spikes across a number of websites” beginning on January 12-13. I then checked some of the properties and found that I see the same thing on some, not most. To be clear this doesn’t apply to all […]
Google has an old Search Console feature that allows you to limit or slow down the speed at which Google can crawl your website under the crawl rate setting. This feature, as we know takes a day or so, and it won’t speed up the crawling, it may only slow the crawling of your site. […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if the button attribute is treated like a link attribute. The answer was a resounding “no”. John continued Twitter “Buttons aren’t links and inherently don’t have URLs attached to actions, so we wouldn’t use them for crawling or anything else.” Yes there is Button tag or attribute, but it’s a […]