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Definition · Supertopics: web · Subtopics: robotstxt, sem, seo, sitemaps (non-exhaustive) · “search” RSS feed (per email)

Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
Google Broke My Heart (per)120
google, licensing, legal
Who Rules AI Search? What 3 Months of AI Visibility Data Tells Us (sem)119
ai, domains, metrics
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)118
ai, backlinks, links, metrics
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994–2025) (hei)117
robotstxt, ai
How to Add Fast, Client-Side Search to Astro Static Sites (tra/evi)116
how-tos, astro, functionality
AEO vs. SEO: Core Differences and How to Win Visibility in Both (sem)115
how-tos, seo, comparisons, content
SerpApi: A Complete API for Fetching Search Engine Data (pre/sma)114
apis
You Can’t Track AI Like Traditional Search—Here’s What to Do Instead (lou/ahr)113
ai
How Do You Optimize for AI Search? (sem)112
ai, optimization
15 Ways Your Website Loads From Google Search and How to Measure Each One (paw)111
google, speculation, signed-exchanges, amp, performance
What We Actually Know About Optimizing for LLM Search (lou/ahr)110
ai, optimization, seo
How AI Is Changing Search Behaviors (nng)109
ai, searching, usability
Does Ranking Higher on Google Mean You’ll Get Cited in AI Overviews? (ahr)108
google, ai, seo
New Google Search Console Insights Report (rus/ser)107
google, seo
The AIpocalypse Is Here for Web Sites as Search Referrals Plunge (tho/the)106
ai, web, traffic
Is Google About to Destroy the Web? (tho)105
google, ai, web
Generative Engine Optimization: The New Era of Search (sem)104
ai, seo, sem
Google Is Stealing Your International Search Traffic With Automated Translations (ahr)103
google, traffic, localization, seo
Almost Half of Google Searches Are Branded—Here’s Why That Matters (tim+/ahr)102
google, branding, marketing, seo
Top Ways to Ensure Your Content Performs Well in Google’s AI Experiences on Search (joh)101
google, ai, content
How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? And How Old Are Top Ranking Pages? (ahr)100
google, seo, metrics
Break Google’s Search Monopoly Without Breaking the Web (owa)99
google, chrome, browsers, web-platform, open-web
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahr)98
ai, google, seo, metrics
Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years (moz)97
google, content, seo, metrics
DOJ Pushes for Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly96
google, legal, chrome, browsers
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone (sch)95
accessibility, hiding, browsers, html
Is SEO Dead in 2025? No, but Changes Are Coming (sem)94
seo, ai, google
What Is Google’s Navboost Algorithm? (sem)93
google, seo
December 2024 Google Core Update (mor/sem)92
google
Googling Is for Old People: What This Means for Web Designers (web)91
design, mobile, google
Implementing Astro Search Functionality90
astro, functionality
How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP and PostgreSQL in JavaScript89
how-tos, images, ai, openai, postgresql, databases, javascript, functionality
Supporting AVIF in Google Search (joh)88
google, avif, images, support
Turn Off Google AI Overview—Set “Web” as Default87
websites, google, ai
Google’s Broken Link to the Web86
google, web, ai
Basic Algorithms85
algorithms, sorting
The HTML, CSS, and SVG for a Classic Search Form (chr/fro)84
forms, html, css, svg
The SEO Starter Guide Got a Makeover (liz+)83
guides, seo, google
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-Side JavaScript (mez)82
eleventy, serverless, functionality
Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript (fro)81
javascript, algorithms
The Comedy of Errors (met)80
google, tooling, errors
An Update on Site Names79
domains, google
The “details” Element and In-Page Search (mat)78
html, disclosure-widgets, browsers, user-experience
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals77
introductions, performance, web-vitals, google, seo
How “x-default” Can Help You (met)76
internationalization, urls, html, attributes, google
Don’t Use 403s or 404s for Rate Limiting (met)75
http, content-delivery, google, seo
Introducing Our New Guide to Google Search Ranking Systems (dan)74
introductions, google, seo
New in Structured Data: Pros and Cons73
structured-data, google, seo
How to Create a Search Page for a Static Website With Vanilla JS (cfe)72
how-tos, functionality, html, javascript
New Robots Tag: “indexifembedded” (met)71
robotstxt, google, seo
In-Page Filtered Search With Vanilla JavaScript (css)70
javascript, functionality
More Information on How Google Generates Titles for Web Page Results (dan)69
google, seo
Lighthouse Scores Do Not Affect Google Search/SEO (erw)68
performance, lighthouse, google, seo
An Update to How We Generate Web Page Titles (dan)67
google, seo
Elasticsearch Boolean Query Performance (ast)66
tooling, performance
Using Hotwire to Build a Search Form With Minimal JavaScript (jos)65
hotwire, forms, functionality
Semantic Web and the Knowledge Graph (rob)64
semantic-web, metadata, structured-data
Evaluating Page Experience for a Better Web63
google, user-experience
Google Confirms Microformats Are Still a Recommended Metadata Format for Content (www)62
google, microformats, metadata, support
Best Practices for News Coverage With Search61
google, amp
Sunsetting Support for Data-Vocabulary (dan)60
google, structured-data
Goodbye, Flash59
google, flash
A Note on Unsupported Rules in robots.txt (met)58
robotstxt, google
robots.txt Is 25 Years Old57
anniversaries, robotstxt
Google’s robots.txt Parser Is Now Open Source (met+)56
robotstxt, parsing, tooling, google
Help Google Search Know the Best Date for Your Web Page (joh)55
google, time
Announcing Domain-Wide Data in Search Console54
google, tooling, domains
The Two Faces of AMP (tka)53
amp, google, open-web
Mobile-First Indexing52
google, mobile, mobile-first
Helping Users Easily Access Content on Mobile51
google, mobile, content
AMP Your Content—a Preview of AMP’ed Results in Search50
google, amp
Indexing HTTPS Pages by Default49
google, http, security
Deprecating Our AJAX Crawling Scheme (nag)48
google, crawling, ajax
Repeated Violations of Webmaster Guidelines47
google
Real-Time Search in JavaScript (osv)46
javascript, functionality
Google’s Handling of New Top Level Domains (joh)45
google, domains, seo
Better Presentation of URLs in Search Results44
google, urls
An Update on Doorway Pages43
google, seo
How to Create a Helpful and Better 404 Page (sma)42
how-tos, error-pages, user-experience, functionality
HTTPS as a Ranking Signal (met)41
google, security, http, seo
Testing robots.txt Files Made Easier40
robotstxt, testing, tooling, crawling, google
Understanding Web Pages Better (hpe+)39
google, javascript
3 Tips to Find Hacking on Your Site, and Ways to Prevent and Fix It38
google, security, tips-and-tricks
3 Guidelines for Search Engine “No Results” Pages (nng)37
guidelines, usability
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests36
backlinks, links, seo, google
Google’s Knowledge Graph—Has Search Just Changed Forever? (the)35
google, semantic-web
Pagination With “rel="next"” and “rel="prev"”34
html, metadata, pagination, google, seo
Introducing schema.org: Search Engines Come Together for a Richer Web33
introductions, structured-data, google, microsoft, yahoo
Making Websites Mobile Friendly (pie)32
mobile, urls, google
Google Now Indexes SVG (jsa)31
google, svg, images
URL Removals Explained: Removing Sensitive Text From a Page (joh)30
google, urls, privacy
Rich Snippets Go International29
google
Working With Multilingual Websites28
internationalization, localization, urls, unicode, seo, google
State of the Index 200927
videos, google
Search Engines Take on Structured Data (dck/w3c)26
structured-data, microformats, rdf, google
Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches (ore)25
interviews, google, microformats, rdf, structured-data
One-Line Sitelinks24
google
A New Google Sitemap Generator for Your Website (joh)23
tooling, sitemaps, google
Google “Not Interested in Semantic Search”22
google, yahoo, semantic-web
The Future of Search According to Google (cat)21
google, outlooks
Interview With Matt Cutts20
videos, interviews, google, spam
Improved Flash Indexing19
google, flash, seo
Crawling Through HTML Forms18
google, crawling, forms, html
Speaking the Language of Robots (sha)17
robotstxt, google, tooling
Tips for Making Information Universally Accessible16
accessibility, google, tips-and-tricks
Sitemaps FAQs15
sitemaps, google
Matt Cutts Discusses the “alt” Attribute14
videos, html, images, alt-text, accessibility, google
Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets13
videos, seo, google
A Spider’s View of Web 2.0 (gre)12
google, accessibility, progressive-enhancement, web-2.0
New robots.txt Feature and REP Meta Tags11
robotstxt, metadata, html, google
Best Uses of Flash10
flash, google, best-practices
Discover Your Links9
google, links
Controlling How Search Engines Access and Index Your Website8
robotstxt
How Search Results May Differ Based on Accented Characters and Interface Languages7
google, localization
Using a robots.txt File (van)6
robotstxt, google
SEO Advice: URL Canonicalization5
seo, urls, google
Including Site Pages in a Sitemap (van)4
sitemaps, google
Submitting Mobile Sitemaps (van)3
google, sitemaps, mobile
5 Questions for Your Web Development Team (joh)2
mobile, performance, legal, accessibility, maintainability, extensibility
Deep Linking Is Good Linking (nng)1
links, usability