A noindex robots directive is one of the few commands that Google must obey, one of the few ways that a site owner can exercise control over Googlebot, Google’s indexer. And yet it’s not totally ...

The first time I saw the “Duplicate without user-selected canonical” error in Google Search Console, I gulped. “Oh, no. Please, not this.” Then I saw it again ...

CrUX reports user experience by page views; Search Console reports by URLs (grouped). Both can be right at the same time. Understand each tool’s method before comparing numbers. Google's Barry Pollard ...

Google announced it is adding social channels within the Google Search Console Insights report. This "lets you review Search performance of social channels associated with your website directly within ...

In mid-September, many SEO professionals began noticing unusual drops in Google Search Console (GSC) data. Impressions were down, average positions shifted, and the number of reported queries changed ...

Editor's take: The glitch illustrates the complexity of integrating generative AI systems with real-time search data. Scraping search results across public infrastructures raises both technical and ...