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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why a Search Console was providing a sitemap fetch error even though server logs show that GoogleBot successfully fetched it. The question was asked on Reddit. The person who started the discussion listed a comprehensive list of technical checks that they did to confirm that the sitemap returns […]
Penske Media Corporation (PMC) filed a federal court memorandum opposing Google’s motion to dismiss its antitrust lawsuit. The company argues that Google has broken the longstanding premise of a web ecosystem in which publishers allowed their content to be crawled in exchange for receiving search traffic in return. PMC is the publisher of twenty brands […]
Google’s Search Relations team was asked directly whether you still need a website in 2026. They didn’t give a one-size-fits-all answer. The conversation stayed focused on trade-offs between owning a website and relying on platforms such as social networks or app stores. In a new episode of the Search Off the Record podcast, Gary Illyes […]
Cloudflare launched a feature that converts HTML pages to markdown when AI systems request it. Sites on its network can now serve lighter content to bots without building separate pages. The feature, called Markdown for Agents, works through HTTP content negotiation. An AI crawler sends a request with Accept: text/markdown in the header. Cloudflare intercepts […]
Google’s John Mueller shared a case where a leftover HTTP homepage was causing unexpected site-name and favicon problems in search results. The issue, which Mueller described on Bluesky, is easy to miss because Chrome can automatically upgrade HTTP requests to HTTPS, making the HTTP version easy to overlook. What Happened Mueller described the case as […]
. However it also contains inline elements such as the contents of script tags or styling added to other tags. This can rapidly lead to bloating of the HTML doc.” That is the same thing that Googlebot is downloading as HTML, just the on-page markup, not the links to JavaScript or CSS. According to the […]
Most SEO teams believe they need more data to report success, but what they actually have is metric debt, at least that’s what I keep seeing. The accumulated cost of optimizing for key performance indicators that no longer reflect how growth happens. The environment has changed, mostly because economic pressure has shifted expectations. At the […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked how many megabytes of HTML Googlebot crawls per page. The question was whether Googlebot indexes two megabytes (MB) or fifteen megabytes of data. Mueller’s answer minimized the technical aspect of the question and went straight to the heart of the issue, which is really about how much content is indexed. […]
Today’s question is about understanding internal linking and how it can help or hinder a search engine’s perception of a page’s topical relevance and authority. “How do you technically assess whether a site’s internal linking is diluting topical authority rather than strengthening it?” What Is Topical Authority In essence, topical authority is the concept of […]
Some developers have been experimenting with bot-specific Markdown delivery as a way to reduce token usage for AI crawlers. Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky. What’s Happening A developer […]