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SEO Nov 1, 2026
Google says its crawl budget guide is for very large sites, sites with 10,000 or more rapidly changing pages, or sites with many Discovered, currently not indexed URLs, and that the numbers…
SEO Nov 1, 2026
Google says it generally follows links only when they are anchor elements with an href that resolves to a web address, and that anchor text should be descriptive, concise and relevant…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says it processes JavaScript pages in three phases, crawling, rendering and indexing, using an evergreen Chromium. Pages must not be blocked in robots.txt, links should be real…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says to tell it about localized versions using hreflang in HTML, an HTTP header or a sitemap. Each version must list itself and every other version, with fully qualified URLs, and…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says breadcrumb markup uses a BreadcrumbList with at least two ListItems, each with a name and position, and a URL except for the last item. Breadcrumbs should show a typical user…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says it uses the mobile version of a site's content, crawled with the smartphone agent, for indexing and ranking. Make sure the mobile page can be crawled, carries the same content…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says permanent redirects show the new target in search results and temporary redirects keep the source page. Server-side 301 or 308 is preferred for moved pages, an instant meta…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says redirects and rel=canonical are strong canonical signals and sitemap inclusion is a weak one, and that they stack. None is required, because Google picks a canonical itself if…
Google Oct 29, 2026
Google says a sitemap is a hint, not a guarantee. List the canonical, absolute URLs you want in search results, keep lastmod accurate, stay within 50 MB or 50,000 URLs per file, and submit…
Google Oct 28, 2026
Google says a robots.txt file must be named robots.txt, sit at the root of the site host, be UTF-8 text, and contain groups that start with a user-agent line. Everything is crawlable unless…
Google Oct 28, 2026
Google says noindex removes a page from Search results, but only if the page is not blocked by robots.txt and the crawler can read the rule. Use noindex to keep pages out of results, use…
