Google announced today it’s now using mobile-first indexing for over half the web pages shown in its search results globally — a significant milestone in Google’s move to favor mobile sites ...

Many of these indexed pages are actually duplicates ... equal signs — in the URLs of their Web pages. Even worse, a significant percentage of sites embed session IDs, user IDs, and other “flags” in ...

How Web Crawlers Index Content Even for spiders, the web is a lot to navigate, so they rely on links to guide their way, pointing them from page to page. In particular, they’ve got their eyes on ...

Google wasn't around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any ...

That is not the case. Google is simply trying to index fewer HTTP pages when there are HTTPS versions of the same page. “Browsing the web should be a private experience between the user and the ...

The Ajax URL for each of the page queries has a no-index applied. Is there any guarantee that the appended content will not be indexed as a part of the main web page?” “The answer is it ...

Web Object Retrieval (pdf), discusses an approach towards Web indexing that changes focus from page level, to that of indexing objects found upon pages. OK, so that does that mean? It’s easiest ...

You’re not alone. At some point yesterday, Google’s search indexing seems to have stopped processing new pages from many of the internet’s largest websites. Sometime yesterday afternoon ...

Individual product pages, on the other hand ... Search engines need to have a quality threshold, as indexing the entire web is impossible. In ecommerce, the quality threshold bar will differ ...

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