A website can lose not only visitors but search engine rankings as well if the search engine is not able to follow URLs to that site. It is therefore essential to get the redirects correctly in place.

I'm thinking about a project where a bunch of devices that are behind firewalls would check in with a URL on a public web server on a regular basis to see if they should run a command. I think a lot ...

One of the most significant threats that remain on the internet is the websites themselves. Adware has been known to spread most of the malware, and they were top on the chart in one of the recent ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that you can use the site command to check individual pages and see if they are indexed. Generally Google tells SEOs not to depend on the site command but with ...

In Reorganizing XML Sitemaps with Python for Fun & Profit, I covered how to reorganize XML sitemaps to isolate indexing problems. Let’s say you followed that process and now you have dozens of ...

On January 31, Google released the URL Inspection API, enabling you to programmatically check the status of URLs in bulk (based on properties you have access to in GSC). Although you could always ...

New index checker tool, Rapid Index Checker, lets SEO teams check Google index status, monitor Google indexed pages, and ...

Google today announced that it is upgrading Google Safe Browsing with real-time URL protection to keep Chrome users safe from malicious websites. Safe Browsing is designed to protect against phishing ...

The URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console isn’t just a checkbox for SEO professionals. It’s a direct line into how Google actually sees your page. It shows ...