Google Spam Guide Adds “Only Index Content Meant for Search”: The robots.txt Route Can Leave URLs Indexed
On October 26 Google added a section called “Only index content meant for Search” to its guide on preventing user-generated…
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On October 26 Google added a section called “Only index content meant for Search” to its guide on preventing user-generated…
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Google edited three Indexing API documentation pages on October 16. The quota page no longer links the quota-request form, and…
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Rank trackers have been getting “poisoned” Google results since September, according to a Nozzle study dated October 10. Its headline…
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Google published a documentation page for the UGC Fresh Data Program, a dedicated pipeline that lets approved platforms push content…
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Google began rolling out its September 2026 spam update at 09:15 Pacific time on September 24, according to the Search…
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Google’s Indexing API can return two different answers about the same URL. Call the publish endpoint and you get HTTP…
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Cloudflare changed what its Block setting does to mixed-use crawlers on September 15, and added a Training setting it says…
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Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its search results across Europe to comply with EU antitrust rules, a move…
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Apple’s support documentation for Applebot now carries a sentence it didn’t have in late August: “Site rules for Applebot-Extended are…
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Google rolled Gemini 3.8 Flash into Search’s AI Mode on September 2. By the next morning, SEOs were posting examples…
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