Redirects for SEO should be used correctly because they impact how websites are crawled and indexed by Google. While most people think of redirects as an internet detour sign, much more is happening, ...

Each time you visit a web page, a bureaucratic exchange takes place between your computer’s web browser and a distant web server. Your web browser (called the ...

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a new topic that I never covered before in my (almost) 6 years of covering SEO forum threads. A Webmaster was using a server response code of 300, which is a ...

Google’s John Mueller recently explained that HTTP status codes are the first thing Google checks when crawling content. This topic came up during the Google Webmaster Central Hangout on October 18.

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from ...