Google recently updated the documentation of its Google-Extended web crawler user agent, reflecting changes in product naming and clarifying the impact on search, which may be a concern for those who choose to block the crawler. The updated documentation offers clearer guidance on controlling content access for use in AI model training. Google-Extended User Agent … Read more
The Google Search team has made a number of relatively minor changes to its JavaScript documentation and also removed much of the dynamic rendering documentation, as it has been deprecated as a workaround for many years now. I’ll show you what changed: On the Understand the JavaScript SEO basics – if you compare it to … Read more
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said we should expect to see more clarification from Google on its creating helpful content page, specific to the section “Get to know E-E-A-T and the quality rater guidelines.” Sullivan said on X, “You’re almost certainly going to see more clarification come to that page, as well, in the near … Read more
Google has updated its help documentation specific to Google Crawlers and added the Google Safety crawler to the list of special case crawlers. This crawler is not new but Google decided to add it because they “received many questions” over the past year about this crawler. Google Safety’s crawler goes under the full user agent … Read more
Google updated the list of their official crawlers by adding the name and information for a relatively unknown crawler for Google Safety. Although Google added official documentation for this crawler the information provided seems to encourage more clarification. Special Case Crawlers Google has several kinds of crawlers (also known as bots and spiders). The different … Read more
Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the Favicon user agent section and also to clarify that you need to allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image user agents for Google to index your favicons and display them in Google Search. What Google said. “Clarified in the favicon documentation that both the favicon file and … Read more
Google updated their documentation for Google Discover to clarify why websites may lose traffic from Discover. Google Discover Discover is a personalized feed of content on topics related to user interests. These topics may be chosen from a search history. Perhaps because of that, Discover is officially a feature of Google Search. So, for example, … Read more
Google has fixed a typo in their crawler documentation that inadvertently misidentified one of their crawlers. In general, this is a minor issue but it’s a major issue for SEOs and publishers who depend on the documentation to set firewall rules. Failure to notate the correct data could cause a website to inadvertently block a … Read more
Google has removed the @id mentions in the site name documentation calling the use of @id “unneeded.” If you compare the old version of the page to the new version, you will see the example code that shows @id lines were removed. Google wrote that today, August 2nd they have “removed unneeded mention of “@id” … Read more
Google has added a bunch of examples to the potentialAction.mathExpression-input section of the Math Solver help documentation. These examples explain how to handle derivatives, integrals, and limits in that field. You can see the examples over here – here is a screenshot, the previous version only had a few sentences for that whole section. It … Read more
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