Tag Archives: headers

Google Testing Blue Shaded Search Bar Headers That Stick

Google Search is testing various shades of blue for its search header, including a sticky version that, um, sticks as you scroll down the search results. Here are various screenshots from a few folks that I found on X over the past several days. Khushal Bherwani spotted this blue sticky header and posted this screenshot […]

Are Security Headers a Rating Issue? Google Answers!

In a recent Google SEO Office Hours (when the Google team responds to user-submitted questions) a question about security headers arose. The question was whether these headers affect the ranking of sites in Google’s search rankings. The short answer is that they don’t. But, despite being simple, this question brings interesting insights for SEO professionals, […]

Google Once more Says Cache-Control Headers Aren’t Used For Crawling & Indexing Exterior Of Embedded Content material

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again today, at the end of 2022, but added, “at most, they might be used in rendering for embedded content.” […]

Google Native Pack headers with manufacturers

Colan Nielsen noticed Recently, for some local keyword searches, Google changed the header of the local packet in the keyword spot to a brand name. Providing an example that I can recreate, Colan said, “Google lists the specific company I think I’m looking for.” Was searched for [dermatologist san diego] and the header, instead of […]

Google does not deal with all uppercase headers otherwise

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that he doesn’t think Google is doing “something special with capitalized headings”. So if you want to scream your headlines in UPPERCASE, do it. Adam Riemer asked, “Is a website that uses all uppercase letters for branding for H tags and product titles viewed as different from a website […]