Tag Archives: URL

Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy

Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy

Enlarge / Google’s safe browsing warning is not subtle. Google Google Chrome’s “Safe Browsing” feature—the thing that pops up a giant red screen when you try to visit a malicious website—is getting real-time updates for all users. Google announced the change on the Google Security Blog. Real-time protection naturally means sending URL data to some far-off server, but Google says it will use “privacy-preserving… Source link

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Google Answers If Stop Words Should Be Used in URL

Google Answers If Stop Words Should Be Used in URL

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether stop words should be used in the URLs. Mueller answered the question but also discussed the impact of words in URLs and recommended how to approach what words are used in URLs. Background of Stop Words in Search Stop Words are common words like “a”, “and”, and “the.” In the early days of search, those kinds of words used to not be considered important for SEO because they weren’t considered important for search… Source link

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What Happens When Google Picks The Wrong Canonical URL?

What Happens When Google Picks The Wrong Canonical URL?

Despite your best effort to implement canonical tags, Google won’t always choose the same URL to display in search results. How can this be fixed? This topic is addressed by Google Search Advocate John Mueller in a Reddit thread on the r/TechSEO forum. An individual asks why Google is displaying the wrong URL in search results, even though they’re making every effort to indicate which page should be displayed. In addition to canonical tags, this individual is using hreflang tags, and… Source link

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Google Sunsetting URL Parameters Tool Next Month

Google Sunsetting URL Parameters Tool Next Month

Google is sunsetting the URL Parameters tool in Search Console next month, the company confirms in an announcement today. There’s no action required for current users of the tool, Google states. That means you no longer need to do anything to specify the function of URL parameters on your site. The URL Parameters tool gave people the ability to specify how certain parameters affect the content on their site. Now, Google’s crawlers will learn how to deal with URL parameters… Source link

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No Benefit to An Artificially Flat URL Structure

No Benefit to An Artificially Flat URL Structure

Google’s John Mueller says there’s no benefit to having an artificially flat URL structure compared to one that shows directory depth. The number of slashes in a URL is by no means an indicator of how important a page is, or how likely Google is to surface the page in search results. This topic is discussed during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on March 26. A site owner submits a question about URL structure asking Mueller his thoughts on short URLs versus URLs that show… Source link

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MONITORAPP’s Malicious URL Analysis Engine Now on Google’s VirusTotal

MONITORAPP’s Malicious URL Analysis Engine Now on Google’s VirusTotal

ONTARIO, Calif., Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — MONITORAPP announced that their malicious URL analysis engine (https://aicc.monitorapp.com), AICC (Application Insight Cloud Center) is now on VirusTotal (https://www.virustotal.com), owned by Chronicle – a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Google). VirusTotal is a global threat analysis service, which operates under the support of Google. It detects and analyzes malicious URL using AV/Website Scanning/Sandboxing engines, which uses various global… Source link

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