Google has updated the help document for file types indexable by Google to include Comma-Separated Values (.csv) in the list. I doubt Google was not bale to index those files before, and I wonder if this was just a documentation change but not a change in what Google was able to index? The help document […]
Google’s Gary Illyes said that the Googlebot JSON file IP address list is updated within a few days of a new IP being added to the list of IPs that Googlebot crawls from. “We got a few comments about whether the list is up-to-date; the answer was always yes, within a margin of a few […]
Microsoft Bing posted a newblog post saying “for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the “lastmod” tag.” And it will become even more critical as Bing is reworking its crawl scheduling stack to rely more on this lastmod field. Yes, by June, the way Bing decides […]
Google’s Gary Illyes said on LinkedIn this morning that you should “include the URLs that you would want to see as canonical in your sitemaps.” This is not necessarily new advice, Google has said this numerous times, but Gary had a reason to repeat this advice for some reason. Gary added, “It’s normal to have […]
Google has deleted and 404ed the Rich media file best practices. Google said removed its “documentation about rich-media files, such as Silverlight and Flash.” Why? This is the best part, Google wrote “Turns out it’s not 2005 anymore.” You can probably briefly see the cached version of the page over here and then use the […]
Google’s John Mueller has one of his good one liners again. An SEO named Sara Taher asked him for his “thoughts on people updating the disavow file everyday?” John responded “It would be easier to stop buying links /shrug.” Here is this conversation on Twitter: It would be easier to stop buying links /shrug — […]
Home Business Magazine Online It is not uncommon for you to be startled by a notification pop-up stating “The file (s) you are trying to attach is over the 25MB attachment size limit” when trying to upload a video file to the e-mail. Insert mail. In general, the commonly used email services only allow attachments […]
Not to be exceeded by google, Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel announced that it has published BingBot’s IP addresses in this JSON file. This is in addition to the methods you can use to verify that Microsoft Bing is crawling your website and that it is not a scam bot pretending to be BingBot. Here is the […]
In 2007, Google developed a mechanism that SEOs or website owners can use to verify that the Googlebot is who it claims to be through reverse DNS checks. But now Google has too decided to publish a list of IP addresses that the Googlebot uses to crawl your website. Google has published two different JSON […]