Googlebot queues pages for both crawling and rendering. It is not immediately obvious when a page is waiting for crawling and when it is waiting for rendering. When Googlebot fetches a URL from the ...

In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will improve ...

The folks at Vercel and MERJ put together a super deep dive on how Google Search handles indexing JavaScript. They analyzed over 100,000 Googlebot fetches across various sites to test and validate ...

Google Maps was, is, and will certainly continue to be one of the top mobile navigation solutions worldwide. The competition in this space has caught the attention of several other big names in the ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document, for the second time this week, this time to clarify canonicalization best practices for JavaScript. In short, Google said “setting the ...

Over-reliance on JavaScript creates a blind spot for AI search crawlers. AI search crawlers reportedly can't read JavaScript, limiting your site's visibility. Server-side rendering and HTML-first ...

Google this week launched its Google AJAX Libraries API, enabling developers to use the company’s global infrastructure to host and serve major JavaScript libraries. “What it is really about is being ...

Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content ...