Category Archives: Digital Marketing

Google may be crawling the web with a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named GoogleProducer. This useragent is not listed on the official Google crawlers page but maybe it is too new to be listed yet?Hernán Marsili spotted this and asked Google about this on Twitter. He said, “we are seeing a lot of trafficContinueContinue reading “GoogleProducer: A New Googlebot Crawler From Google?”

CNBC reported the other day that Google is working on its own AI chatbot named Apprentice Bard. Apprentice Bard is reportedly built on Google’s AI LaMDA language model stack and while Google is being more cautious with this rollout, Google is working on testing an AI bot in search.CNBC wrote, “As a result of ChatGPT,ContinueContinue reading “Google Testing Apprentice Bard: Google’s Answer To OpenAI’s ChatGPT?”

Gary Illyes from Google posted a new PSA on LinkedIn saying that the most common reason a site unexpectedly blocks Googlebot from crawling is due to a misconfiguration of a firewall or CDN.Gary wrote, “check what traffic your firewalls and CDN are blocking.” “By far the most common issue in my inbox is related toContinueContinue reading “Google: Firewalls or CDNs Issues Are The Most Common Reason For Blocking Googlebot”

Gary Illyes of Google said in the Google SEO office-hours from yesterday that verifying your website in Google Search Console won’t impact your Google Search indexing or ranking whatsoever.Gary said, “Having your site verified in Search Console or changing the verification code and method has no effect on indexing or ranking whatsoever.”John Mueller of GoogleContinueContinue reading “Google: Search Console Verification Does Not Impact Your Ranking”

 John Mueller of Google blasted SEO or marketing agencies that sell both link-building services and disavow link services. He said on Twitter, “These agencies (both those creating, and those disavowing) are just making stuff up, and cashing in from those who don’t know better.”John added that its “all made up and irrelevant.”Also, when asked ifContinueContinue reading “Google Blasts Agencies That Sell Links & Disavow Link Services”