Each time you visit a web page, a bureaucratic exchange takes place between your computer’s web browser and a distant web server. Your web browser (called the ...

Redirects for SEO should be used correctly because they impact how websites are crawled and indexed by Google. While most people think of redirects as an internet detour sign, much more is happening, ...

Google’s John Mueller recently explained that HTTP status codes are the first thing Google checks when crawling content. This topic came up during the Google Webmaster Central Hangout on October 18.

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from ...

Google has made changes to a few of its Google search help documentation over the past couple of days. The documents updated include HTTP status codes, the Googlebot and job posting help documentation ...