Tag Archives: Seo

Google has updated the video indexing report within Google Search Console to add impression data and a way to filter the report by your available sitemaps.As a reminder, the video indexing report went fully live in August 2022 after Google started to slowly roll out the video index report within Google Search Console earlier inContinueContinue reading “Google Search Console Video Indexing Report Gains Impressions & Sitemap Filters”

Microsoft Bing posted a new blog post saying “for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the “lastmod” tag.” And it will become even more critical as Bing is reworking its crawl scheduling stack to rely more on this lastmod field.Yes, by June, the way Bing decidesContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Bing: lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap File Is Critical”

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”