Google Play’s Best of 2021
Today, we announced the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2021, a celebration of apps and games that …
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An update on our Privacy Sandbox commitments
For further background on this topic, please see our blog from June. Since we announced our Privacy …
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How to hide a website in search
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how password protection, blocking crawling, a…
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PubCast Season 2: turning passions into profits
PubCast is a podcast featuring the stories of website creators and app developers who turned their p…
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How making lists became this entrepreneur’s brand
You don’t have to reinvent the wheel “I don’t think any of us are coming up with anything new …
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SEO lightning round 2 #AskGooglebot
In this lightning episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller answers questions such as: Can blocking CSS …
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Does URL length matter? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how URL length doesn’t affect ranking in sear…
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Absolute or relative URLs, which is better? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains the differences between absolute and relative…
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Are URLS case sensitive? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how uppercase and lowercase letters in URLs a…
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Does a website theme matter for SEO? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how a website’s theme can play a role in sear…
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How to hide text in a snippet? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains what a snippet is and how to let Google know …
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Why does a site:query not show all my pages? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains why a site:query may not include all of your …
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How does user feedback impact search results? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how Google receives and prioritizes user feed…
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Is shared hosting ok? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains the difference between shared and dedicated h…
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Should I hide affiliate links? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how you should handle affiliate links on your…
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How long does SEO take for new pages? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how long it takes a new page to be indexed by…
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Does Google have an index limit? #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how static and dynamic pages are indexed and …
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How to remove a sitemap #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains what a sitemap is and how to remove it in Sea…
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Average Position in Google Search Console #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains how the average position metric in Google Sea…
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SEO lightning round – #AskGooglebot
In this lightning episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller answers questions such as: Can a self refere…
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Rendering & Crawl Budget – #AskGooglebot
In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller discusses what crawl budget is, and whether the web re…
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Handling 307 Redirects #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller discusses how a Googlebot interacts with HSTS…
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Does a .jobs domain help rank for “jobs”? #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over if a .jobs domain improves the rank…
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Special files in robots.txt #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over special files in robots.txt such as…
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User-generated content on your site #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over how Google search engine approaches…
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Processing 301 redirects #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over what happens when you trigger a 301…
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Javascript: What SEOs need to know #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John is joined again by Martin Splitt, Developer Advocate …
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Webspam manual actions and reconsideration requests #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John discusses what to do when your website is flagged as …
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Image Search Ranking #AskGoogleWebmasters
In this episode of Ask Google Webmasters, John Mueller goes over handy tips on how to optimize your …
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URL inspection: What SEOs need to know #AskGoogleWebmasters
In the last episode of Ask Google Webmasters this year, John is joined again by Martin Splitt, Webma…