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SEOGoogle no longer lists blocking internal search result pages in Search Essentials
John Mueller said on the latest Search Off the Record podcast that the old rule about blocking internal site-search pages has dropped…
SEOSearch Console page indexing report has stalled since 11 June
Since 11 June 2026 the Search Console page indexing report has been adding data in weekly clumps instead of daily points. Barry…
SEOGoogle has no published order for conflicting metadata
John Mueller said on 29 July 2026 that Google has never published the order in which Search resolves conflicting metadata, and probably…
SEOSEO Impact of CMS-Injected URLs: What to Know
Confused by strange CMS-generated URLs in your SEO audits? Learn why they appear, how Google handles them, and how to clean up…
SEOIndexed Claude Chats Show Why a robots.txt Disallow Is Not a Noindex
Shared Claude chats appeared in Google results despite a robots.txt block. Search Engine Journal found the share path disallowed while the pages…
SEOSEO Test Questions Google's Five-Second JavaScript Rendering Window
A test by Dave Smart of Tame the Bots found Google's renderer waited for responses delayed by six to twelve seconds. Google…
SEOForum hit with a thin content manual action, and SEOs suspect its AI bot
A forum's Google Search Console notice cited thin content and suppressed 168,290 threads pending reconsideration. The theory that its AI auto-replies caused…
SEOGary Illyes on unavailable_after: pushing the date back is probably fine, but Google has to recrawl to see it
PPC Land reported a LinkedIn exchange in which Google's Gary Illyes said he did not know whether repeatedly pushing an unavailable_after date…
SEOMueller: a Googlebot-specific robots.txt block makes Google ignore your wildcard rules
Search Engine Journal reported John Mueller explaining why Googlebot appears to ignore robots.txt: when a Googlebot group exists, Google uses only that…