The process for dynamic rendering. Image: Google Google announced on Twitter Wednesday morning that it has published help documentation around what is dynamic rendering, when to use it, and how to implement it. This help documentation is designed as a workaround for webpages that deploy a form of JavaScript that makes it hard for Google […]
The Ask an SMXpert series continues the Q&A segment held during sessions at SMX Advanced 2018 in Seattle. Today’s Q&A is from the Advanced Technical SEO: Page Speed, Site Migrations and Crawling session featuring Melody Petulla and Brian Ussery. Session overview Technical SEO has always been a critical component of search marketing; it is one of
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Posted by BritneyMuller It’s been a few months since our last share of our work-in-progress rewrite of the Beginner’s Guide to SEO, but after a brief hiatus, we’re back to share our draft of Chapter Two with you! This wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Kameron Jenkins, who has thoughtfully contributed her great
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The Ask an SMXpert series continues the questions and answer (Q&A) segment held during sessions at SMX Advanced 2018 in Seattle. Today’s Q&A is from the Advanced Technical SEO: Schema & Structured Data, JavaScript session with Bill Slawski, Mike Arnesen and Patrick Stox. Bill Slawski, Go Fish Digital Question: Do you think Google will use Schema
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Google announced it will no longer be supporting its original AJAX crawling scheme from back in 2009. Starting in the second quarter of 2018, Google said it will “no longer be using the AJAX crawling scheme.” This should come as no surprise, because Google said years ago that it no longer officially and fully supported
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. Google Santa Tracker is live, counting down the days until Christmas with holiday games & resourcesDec 4, 2017 by Amy Gesenhues This year’s Google Santa Tracker comes with coding games, an elf filter in the
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Posted by goralewicz I recently published the results of my JavaScript SEO experiment where I checked which JavaScript frameworks are properly crawled and indexed by Google. The results were shocking; it turns out Google has a number of problems when crawling and indexing JavaScript-rich websites. Google managed to index only a few out of multiple
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Limited mobile devices, “feature-phones“, require a special form of markup or a transcoder for web content. Most websites don’t provide feature-phone-compatible content in WAP/WML any more. Given these developments, we’ve made changes in how we crawl feature-phone content (note: these changes don’t affect smartphone content): 1. We’ve retired the feature-phone Googlebot We won’t be using
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