A common belief among many SEOs is that Google’s Web Rendering Service has a five-second rendering window and that anything that happens after that five-second window won’t be included in the version of the page that Google indexes. The idea started with something Google’s Martin Splitt said on at least two occasions and eventually became […]
Indexed Claude Chats Show Why Disallow Is Not Noindex
Over the weekend, shared Claude chats unexpectedly showed up in Google search results. On July 27, I checked out the crawl rules on the Claude share pages and found a noindex directive that was hidden behind a block, preventing Google from accessing it The share path is blocked by robots.txt on claude.ai. These pages also […]