The old URL checklist still applies: keep it short, use hyphens, work the keyword in. But that checklist was written for crawlers that follow redirects, resolve canonicals, and can usually infer context even from a messy path. A growing share of your audience now finds content through AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google’s AI […]
Google Is Testing New Bot Authorization Standard
Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol designed to help websites verify that automated traffic is really coming from the bot or service it claims to represent. The new protocol could give site owners a dependable way to separate legitimate automated traffic from bots that hide or misrepresent who they are. A new […]