We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the 50,000 URLs? John Mueller was asked if Google counts both the location URL and the alternative URL in the 50,000 limits. John said on Twitter it is just the location URL. As Google ,“All formats […]
There is an interesting thread on Reddit on a topic we touched on here several times, the topic of Google ranking the wrong version of the URL in Google Search. It all stems back to the URLs you want Google to rank being near duplicate to the URL Google ends up ranking. The person said […]
In Google Search Console, you can use the URL Inspection Tool to test how Google sees a URL in its index versus in real time by using the live test button. Jamie Indigo asked on Twitter how long does that URL for the live test cache. Daniel Waisberg of Google responded that it lasts about […]
This is a weird one, Google is testing using a lighter font color for parts of the URLs displayed in the search ads in the search results. So the main domain is a solid dark font, but the parts around it is a lighter gray font. Here is a screenshot from Brodie Clark who posted […]
Last week we broke the news that Google was doing something of some sort Deduplication of headlines and web results in some situations. John Shehata published some data from his product Newzdash showing that 67% of all Google searches have duplicate top stories for web result URLs and about 12% of top story URLs are […]
When IndexNow First announced by Microsoft Bing in October, it hasn’t been to the point where participating search engines share URLs — but that’s no longer the case. Participating IndexNow search engines, which are still just Microsoft Bing and Yandex, now share URLs together. This means if you submit a URL through IndexNow that is […]
Microsoft Bing and Yandex announced a new initiative called IndexNow that enables website owners to ping IndexNow’s log for instant indexing with participating search engines. The participating search engines are currently only Bing and Yandex; Google is not on the list, and other search engines are not yet. There’s a website at IndexNow.org That sums […]