Indexes

Why Google Indexes Blocked Web Pages

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Google's John Mueller explains why Google indexes blocked pages and why related Search Console reports can be safely ignored.

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why Google indexes pages that are disallowed from crawling by robots.txt and why the it’s safe to ignore the related Search Console reports about those crawls. Bot Traffic To Query Parameter URLs The person asking the question documented that bots were creating links to non-existent query parameter URLs … Read more

Googlebot Crawls & Indexes First 15 MB HTML Content

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Googlebot Crawls & Indexes First 15 MB HTML Content

An update to Googlebot’s help document contains confirmation that it will crawl the first 15 MB of a webpage and anything after this cutoff will not be included in rankings calculations. Google specifies in the help document: “Any resources referenced in the HTML such as images, videos, CSS and JavaScript are fetched separately. After the … Read more

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