When Googlebot crawls a page, it should see the page the same way an average user does. For optimal rendering and indexing, always allow Google access to the JavaScript, CSS, and image files used by your website. If your site’s robots.txt file disallows crawling of these assets, it directly harms how well our algorithms render…

For non-sensitive information, block unwanted crawling by using robots.txt A robots.txt file tells search engines whether they can access and therefore crawl parts of your site. This file, which must be named robots.txt, is placed in the root directory of your site. It is possible that pages blocked by robots.txt can still be crawled, so…

PPC stands for Pay-Per-Click, a model of digital advertising where the advertiser pays a fee each time one of their ads is clicked. Essentially, you’re paying for targeted visits to your website (or landing page or app). When PPC is working correctly, the fee is trivial because the click is worth more than what you…

The Google Search Essentials make up the core parts of what makes your web-based content (web pages, images, videos, or other publicly-available material that Google finds on the web) eligible to appear and perform well on Google Search: Technical requirements: What Google needs from a web page to show it in Google Search. Spam policies:…

Google is a fully automated search engine that uses web crawlers to explore the web constantly, looking for sites to add to our index; you usually don’t even need to do anything except post your site on the web. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed in our results aren’t manually submitted for inclusion,…

Search Engine Optimization-Determine whether your site is in Google’s index Do a site: search for your site’s home URL. If you see results, you’re in the index. For example, a search for site:www.bbbbf.com returns these results. If your site isn’t in Google Although Google crawls billions of pages, it’s inevitable that some sites will be missed. When our crawlers miss…

The main difference is that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is focused on optimizing a website in order to get traffic from organic search results. On the other hand, the goal of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is to get traffic and visibility from both organic and paid search. Put another way: Google’s search results are divided into two…

Search Engine Optimization-4 Steps to Making Your Search Listings Stand Out on Google Do you want more click-throughs on your search listings? You can achieve a higher click-through rate (CTR) that drives more qualified traffic to your website by using this one tactic: increasing the size of your Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) listing. Most SERP…

If your document appears in a search results page, the contents of the <title> element may appear as the title link for the search result (if you’re unfamiliar with the different parts of a Google Search result, you might want to check out the anatomy of a search result video). The <title> element for your homepage can list the name…