Google On The SEO Impact Of 503 Status Codes

A colorful illustration depicting a "503 status codes" error message. The numbers are shown on a bright red-orange rectangle, next to a large blue gear

Searchers who expect a website to always be available may be disappointed to encounter a 503 status code. However, brief downtime is perfectly acceptable. During the April edition of the Google Search Central SEO office hours, a question was raised about the potential impact of intermittently serving 503 “Service Unavailable” status codes. Gary Illyes, a … Read more

Google Warns Against Cloaking HTTP Status Codes

During Google’s April 2023 SEO Office Hours, a website owner asked Gary Illyes, Analyst at Google, whether giving Googlebot a different HTTP status code from the one served to human visitors would be acceptable. Specifically, they wanted to serve an HTTP status code of 410 (Gone) to Googlebot while giving users a 200 (OK) status … Read more

WhatsApp New Features: Spelling Actions, Status Reactions, And So Much More!

Only last week, the world’s most popular messaging platform, WhatsApp, announced seven brand new updates for Android, iOS, and Desktop versions. If you are mostly on your phone, then you must have noticed all the many notifications that keep popping up for regular updates recently.  WhatsApp New Features: Good News For Users! Like most social … Read more

Google Says ‘Discovered – Currently Not Indexed’ Status Can Last Forever

Google advises the ‘Discovered – Currently not indexed’ status in Search Console’s Index Coverage report can last forever as there’s no guarantee every page on the web gets indexed. This is stated during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout recorded on February 18. An individual named Davor Bobek joins the livestream to ask Google’s … Read more

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