tip
If you've got lots of URLs in your XML sitemap you don't want to crawl, set up the configuration to exclude them using your normal patterns
When you paste the XML sitemap, they will automatically be excluded
Unsure JS is an issue on the website?
Unsure how to compare content in HTML vs rendered DOM?
A really good guide on double-checking this quickly is from the good old
Today, we’re making a change so that video thumbnails only appear next to Google search results when the video is the main content of a page. This will make it easier for users to understand what to expect when they visit a page. Learn more at https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/04/simplifying-video…
Released the April 2023 reviews update, which now covers reviews about products, services, and things. Learn more about how to write high quality reviews:
Big release today I've finally finished and published my Google Data Studio template to visualise crawl data from @screamingfrog! Hope you like it! https://merci-larry.com/visualising-crawl-data-from-screaming-frog/…
Huge update to the automatic Website migration script (Link shared below).
- Cleaner Output
- Grid Search Technique Finds Highest Scoring Column
- Match on Unlimited Columns at Once
- Uses Sentence Transformers instead of basic string Matching
- CUDA Core Enabled
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Another Way To Deindex URLs
(or, why my website is gone)
https://ohgm.co.uk/another-way-to-deindex-urls/…
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Reporting on link-building is a tricky topic, particularly when clients ask awkward questions 😱 Check out my latest post on the Frog Blog for some different ways to approach it 🐸🔗
Following feedback from the community, today we're updating bulk data exports to allow multiple GSC properties to export to one Cloud project. To do so, you need to customize your dataset name when setting up your export to have a unique dataset name for each export.
Today, we're announcing bulk data export - a new feature that allows you to export data from Search Console to Google BigQuery on an ongoing basis. https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/bulk-data-export…
Every now and then I hear people say: Technical SEO isn't that important.
In some cases I agree. In other cases I've to strongly disagree. Below is one of the latter cases.
It's a site that accidentally created 33 site copies in subfolders. We fixed this duplicate content hell.