Google are in such a position of power that it is hard to imagine them ever being seriously challenged by a competitor. But being one of the world’s most valuable brands (fourth behind Amazon, Apple and Microsoft at the last count) doesn’t come without its problems. That includes facing up to the prospect of a …
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Google has been making some big announcements in the recent week about the robots.txt file but this one if one of the biggest announcements. If you weren’t aware robots.txt is 25 years old, Google has finally decided to make it a standard so that everyone knows the rules and follows them. If you are interested …
Before you read on I want to confirm I am political neutral on here, but when something happens that impacts SEO and rankings I like to analyse. Earlier this week Boris Johnson (running to be UK Prime Minster) appeared on a radio show and was chatting to their Political editor. The talk got around what …
Back when I spoke at BrightonSEO I said after my talk when a question was asked, can you see if your site was affected by looking in the server logs. My answer at the time was the two sites I had data at that time that I had analysed had seen a spike in Googlebot …
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This is something that I have dealt with numerous times and can be hard for certain organisations to set up. Getting log data when using Cloudflare, by default the logs just show the IP etc as Cloudflare meaning it can be difficult to get the data to analyse. Also you need to be on an …