Tag Archives: Google Update

John Mueller of Google said in a post on Reddit that disallowing Googlebot to crawl your site would not immediately lead to the site being deindexed. He added that “it would take quite some time for the whole site to drop out,” and the home page may not be dropped at all.So, if you needContinueContinue reading “Disallowing Crawling Is Not A Super Fast Way To Deindex A Site”

I’ve been checking for the past week, multiple times per day, and just now, Google has launched the Chanukah/Hanukkah decorations for the 2022 season. Chanukah starts this Sunday night, so I was expecting it to come soon, and it is here with a family around a table playing dreidel.You can see it yourself by searchingContinueContinue reading “Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2022”

Google’s John Mueller repeated it, the time spent on a page by your users is not a factor Google uses for ranking. Time spent on the page is not a Google ranking factor, he said, “It doesn’t,” meaning Google doesn’t care about time spent on the page for ranking purposes.An SEO asked why does GoogleContinueContinue reading “Time Spent On Page Is Not A Ranking Factor”

 500/503 HTTP Status Code On Robots.txt Can Remove Your Site From Google SearchGary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn that if your server returns a 500/503 HTTP status code for an extended period of time for your robots.txt file, then Google may remove your site completely from Google Search.This is even if the rest ofContinueContinue reading “503 HTTP Status Code On Robots.txt”

I always wondered why Google had status dashboards for hundreds of other products across Gmail, Drive, Google Ads, etc., but not for Google Search – its most important product/service. But that all changed today when Google launched its Google Search Status Dashboard report.Today, Google launched the Google Search Status Dashboard report at status.search.google.com. This reportContinueContinue reading “New Google Search Status Dashboard”