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For 25 years, the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has been one of the most basic and critical components of the web. It allows website owners […]

As we progress with the migration to the new Search Console experience, we will be saying farewell to one of our settings: preferred domain.It’s common […]

Over the years we attended hundreds of conferences, we spoke to thousands of webmasters, and recorded hundreds of hours of videos to help web creators […]

We invited members of the SEO and web developer community to join us for a new video series called “SEO mythbusting”. In this series, we […]

Over the years since announcing mobile-first indexing – Google’s crawling of the web using a smartphone Googlebot – our analysis has shown that new websites […]

Google I/O is our yearly developer conference where we have the pleasure of announcing some exciting new Search-related features and capabilities. A good place to […]

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been discussing structured data: first providing best practices and then showing how to monitor it with Search Console. Today […]

Googlebot is the crawler that visits web pages to include them within Google Search index. The number one question we got from the community at […]

Google I/O 2019 is starting tomorrow and will run for 3 days, until Thursday. Google I/O is our yearly developers festival, where product announcements are […]

In our previous post in the structured data series, we discussed what structured data is and why you should add it to your site. We […]