A few months ago we released a beta version of a new Search Console experience to a limited number of users. We are now starting to release this beta version to all users of Search Console, so that everyone can explore this simplified process of optimizing a website’s presence on Google Search. The functionality will […]
The AJAX crawling scheme was introduced as a way of making JavaScript-based webpages accessible to Googlebot, and we’ve previously announced our plans to turn it down. Over time, Google engineers have significantly improved rendering of JavaScript for Googlebot. Given these advances, in the second quarter of 2018, we’ll be switching to rendering these pages on
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Rendering AJAX-crawling pages Read More »
Limited mobile devices, “feature-phones“, require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites don’t provide feature-phone-compatible content in WAP/WML any more. Given these developments, we’ve made changes in how we crawl feature-phone content (note: these changes don’t affect smartphone content): 1. We’ve retired the feature-phone Googlebot We won’t be using
An update on Google’s feature-phone crawling & indexing Read More »
Recently, we’ve heard a number of definitions for “crawl budget”, however we don’t have a single term that would describe everything that “crawl budget” stands for externally. With this post we’ll clarify what we actually have and what it means for Googlebot. First, we’d like to emphasize that crawl budget, as described below, is not
Note: This post is specific to Google’s organic web-search. For Google’s other services, please check with the appropriate help center (e.g., for Google Shopping) or help forum. Even in today’s “always-on” world, sometimes businesses want to take a break. There are times when even their online presence needs to be paused. This blog post covers
