Canonical Tags: The Rules Most Sites Get Wrong
A canonical tag is a strong hint, not a directive, and Google overrides it when the signals around it disagree. The five…
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A canonical tag is a strong hint, not a directive, and Google overrides it when the signals around it disagree. The five…
Crawled - currently not indexed means Google read the page and chose not to index it. Here are the real causes and…
A working decision tree for why a page won't index in Google: the six Search Console statuses, what causes each, and the…
Crawl depth is how many clicks a page sits from your homepage. The thresholds that matter, and how to fix pages buried…
A soft 404 returns 200 but reads like an error page. How Google detects it, why it wastes crawl budget, and the…
URL parameters like session IDs, UTM tags, and filters create duplicate crawlable URLs. Here is how to classify each type and stop…
A working reference to the HTTP status codes that change crawling and indexing: 200, 301, 302, 404, 410, 5xx, and soft 404s…
Google doesn't penalise duplicate content — it clusters URLs and picks one. Here's what actually causes the damage, and the fix for…
Crawl budget is a real constraint on large sites and a red herring on small ones. Here's how to tell which, and…
Google's page experience update promised a lot and delivered narrowly. What Google still confirms, the current Core Web Vitals thresholds, and what…
Google's mobile-friendly update launched 21 April 2015 and was never the catastrophe its nickname promised. What changed, and what mobile-first indexing broke.
Search engines work in three stages: crawling, indexing and serving. What happens at each, where pages fail, and what that means for…
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