Google Now Supports Crawling & Indexing Locale-Adaptive Web Pages
Google adds support for web pages that dynamically change their content based on IP origin or language settings.
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Google Mobile Search Descriptions Now Say If You’re Blocking Google
Yet another reason not to block JavaScript, CSS, etc from Google. It may negatively impact your snippet in the mobile search results now.
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Google On How They Know When To Slow Or Stop Crawling Your Web Site
Today at SMX East, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, Gary Illyes shared with the audience two technical ways Google determines when GoogleBot, their crawlers, should slow down or stop crawling your web site. One of the more important factors with SEO is to ensure the search engine crawlers…
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Google Webmaster Tools Updates Robots.txt Testing Tool
Google announced they have updated their robots.txt testing tool in Webmaster Tools. The update brings you a few more features including: (1) Highlights which line in your robots.txt file is blocking a specific page. (2) Make test changes to the robots…
Should You Gate Content? The SEO Implications
Content marketing is the hot topic these days, but lead generation marketers are faced with a conundrum: How do I get the visibility for my content via organic search while at the same time capturing leads? Are SEO and gated content mutually exclusive? There’s no magic answer to this…
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Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page
How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots…
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The robots.txt Celebrates 20 Years Of Blocking Search Engines
Today is the 20th anniversary of the robots.txt directive being available for webmasters to block search engines from crawling their pages. The robots.txt was created by Martijn Koster in 1994 while he was working at Nexor after having issues with craw…
Google Fixing Reverse DNS GoogleBot Verification
Google has confirmed that there are some GoogleBot useragent spiders not properly passing verification protocol. Savvy webmasters noticed that GoogleBot over the .249.70.0 /24 IP range was not returning the proper reverse DNS verification details. The response given was “no such host is…
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Google’s Matt Cutts: NoFollow Attributes On Internal Links Don’t Hurt But Generally Don’t Do It
In a video, Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts published today Matt answered the question, “Should I use rel=”nofollow” on internal links to a login page?” Matt Cutts basically said you shouldn’t but said it won’t hurt you if you did. Matt said,…
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Snowden Petition Blocked From Google? Like All Petitions, It Won’t Be When It Gets Enough Signatures
Search for [edward snowden petition] to find the petition filed through the White House’s Petition site, and you’ll see something odd. The petition has no description, because the White House won’t let Google crawl the page. But it’s not a move against Snowden, as some might…
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