Tag Archives: Pages

Google’s John Mueller shares SEO best practices to follow when cleaning up, and recovering from, site hacks. Mueller provided this advice on Reddit in response to a thread from a site owner dealing with thousands of hacker-injected web pages. The site owner begins by asking whether it’s best to 404 or 410 the hacked pages, to which Mueller replies: “It doesn’t matter. The different is mostly theoretical.” In a follow-up comment the site owner asks if there’s anything else they… Source link

Brittany Vincent has been covering video games and tech for over a decade for publications like G4, Popular Science, Playboy, Empire, Complex, IGN, GamesRadar, Polygon, Kotaku, Maxim, and more. When she’s not writing or gaming, she’s looking for the next great visual novel in the vein of Saya no Uta. Source link

Google’s Gary Illyes reveals the search index uses a tiered system where the most popular content is indexed on faster, more expensive storage. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast which deals with language complexities in search index selection. In explaining how Google builds its search index, Illyes says content is indexed on three types of storage: RAM (Random Access Memory): Fastest and most expensive SSD (Solid State Drive): Very fast… Source link

Google will ban ads promoting coronavirus conspiracy theories, remove ads from pages that promote these theories, and demonetize entire sites that frequently violate the policy starting on August 18th. CNBC reported the news earlier today, noting that it supplements an existing ban on monetizing harmful medical misinformation. A Google spokesperson confirmed that the new policy will cover pages contradicting an “authoritative scientific consensus” on the coronavirus pandemic. While… Source link

Google appears to have fixed an issue with Google Discover that was preventing large image previews being displayed for non-AMP pages. This is a follow-up to a previous story back in April in which we reported Google was aware of the issue and working on a fix. Search Engine Journal’s lead developer, Vahan Petrosyan, initially brought this issue to Google’s attention and now informs me it has been resolved. This is good news for all non-AMP sites that are eligible to appear in Google… Source link