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

Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
Making Your Site Visible to LLMs: 6 Techniques That Work, 8 That Don’t (tra/evi)142
ai, agent-experience, llmstxt, best-practices
The Site-Search Paradox: Why the Big Box Always Wins (sma)141
design, user-experience
What Is SERP Volatility and What Should You Do About It?140
seo, google
How Much Do Keywords Matter in 2026? (moz)139
keywords, seo, google
It’s 2026 and Google Search Is Totally Broken138
google, seo, foss, ai
ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190× More Traffic to Websites (ahr)137
traffic, chatgpt, google, metrics
How AI Is Redefining the Way We Find Content (cle)136
ai, crawling, content, seo
Google Broke My Heart (per)135
google, licensing, legal
Who Rules AI Search? What 3 Months of AI Visibility Data Tells Us (sem)134
ai, domains, metrics
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)133
ai, backlinks, links, metrics
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994–2025) (hei)132
robotstxt, internet-archive, ai
How to Add Fast, Client-Side Search to Astro Static Sites (tra/evi)131
how-tos, astro, functionality
AEO vs. SEO: Core Differences and How to Win Visibility in Both (sem)130
how-tos, seo, comparisons, content
SerpApi: A Complete API for Fetching Search Engine Data (pre/sma)129
apis
You Can’t Track AI Like Traditional Search—Here’s What to Do Instead (lou/ahr)128
ai
How Do You Optimize for AI Search? (sem)127
ai, optimization
15 Ways Your Website Loads From Google Search and How to Measure Each One (paw)126
google, speculation, signed-exchanges, amp, performance
What We Actually Know About Optimizing for LLM Search (lou/ahr)125
ai, optimization, seo
How AI Is Changing Search Behaviors (nng)124
ai, searching, usability
Does Ranking Higher on Google Mean You’ll Get Cited in AI Overviews? (ahr)123
google, ai, seo
New Google Search Console Insights Report (rus/ser)122
google, seo
The AIpocalypse Is Here for Web Sites as Search Referrals Plunge (tho/the)121
ai, web, traffic
Is Google About to Destroy the Web? (tho)120
google, ai, web
Generative Engine Optimization: The New Era of Search (sem)119
ai, seo, sem
Google Is Stealing Your International Search Traffic With Automated Translations (ahr)118
google, traffic, localization, seo
Almost Half of Google Searches Are Branded—Here’s Why That Matters (tim+/ahr)117
google, branding, marketing, seo
Top Ways to Ensure Your Content Performs Well in Google’s AI Experiences on Search (joh)116
google, ai, content
How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? And How Old Are Top Ranking Pages? (ahr)115
google, seo, metrics
Break Google’s Search Monopoly Without Breaking the Web (owa)114
google, chrome, browsers, web-platform, open-web
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahr)113
ai, google, seo, metrics
Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years (moz)112
google, content, seo, metrics
DOJ Pushes for Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly111
google, legal, chrome, browsers
Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone (sch)110
accessibility, hiding, browsers, html
Is SEO Dead in 2025? No, but Changes Are Coming (sem)109
seo, ai, google
What Is Google’s Navboost Algorithm? (sem)108
google, seo
December 2024 Google Core Update (mor/sem)107
google
Googling Is for Old People: What This Means for Web Designers (web)106
design, mobile, google
Implementing Astro Search Functionality105
astro, functionality
How to Build an Image Search Application With OpenAI CLIP and PostgreSQL in JavaScript104
how-tos, images, ai, openai, postgresql, databases, javascript, functionality
Supporting AVIF in Google Search (joh)103
google, avif, images, support
Turn Off Google AI Overview—Set “Web” as Default102
websites, google, ai
Google’s Broken Link to the Web101
google, web, ai
Basic Algorithms100
algorithms, sorting
The HTML, CSS, and SVG for a Classic Search Form (chr/fro)99
forms, html, css, svg
The SEO Starter Guide Got a Makeover (liz+)98
guides, seo, google
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-Side JavaScript (mez)97
eleventy, serverless, functionality
Binary Search Algorithm in JavaScript (fro)96
javascript, algorithms
The Comedy of Errors (met)95
google, tooling, errors
An Update on Site Names94
domains, google
The “details” Element and In-Page Search (mat)93
html, disclosure-widgets, browsers, user-experience
Introducing INP to Core Web Vitals92
introductions, performance, web-vitals, google, seo
How “x-default” Can Help You (met)91
internationalization, urls, html, attributes, google
Don’t Use 403s or 404s for Rate Limiting (met)90
http, content-delivery, rate-limiting, google, seo
Introducing Our New Guide to Google Search Ranking Systems (dan)89
introductions, google, seo
New in Structured Data: Pros and Cons88
structured-data, google, seo
How to Create a Search Page for a Static Website With Vanilla JS (cfe)87
how-tos, functionality, html, javascript
New Robots Tag: “indexifembedded” (met)86
robotstxt, google, seo
In-Page Filtered Search With Vanilla JavaScript (css)85
javascript, functionality
How to Add Search to a Ghost Site (fla)84
how-tos, ghost
More Information on How Google Generates Titles for Web Page Results (dan)83
google, seo
Lighthouse Scores Do Not Affect Google Search/SEO (erw)82
performance, lighthouse, google, seo
An Update to How We Generate Web Page Titles (dan)81
google, seo
Elasticsearch Boolean Query Performance (ast)80
tooling, performance
Using Hotwire to Build a Search Form With Minimal JavaScript (jos)79
hotwire, forms, functionality
Semantic Web and the Knowledge Graph (rob)78
semantic-web, metadata, structured-data
Evaluating Page Experience for a Better Web77
google, user-experience
Google Confirms Microformats Are Still a Recommended Metadata Format for Content (www)76
google, microformats, metadata, support
Best Practices for News Coverage With Search75
google, amp
Sunsetting Support for Data-Vocabulary (dan)74
google, structured-data
Goodbye, Flash73
google, flash
A Note on Unsupported Rules in robots.txt (met)72
robotstxt, google
robots.txt Is 25 Years Old71
anniversaries, robotstxt
Google’s robots.txt Parser Is Now Open Source (met+)70
robotstxt, parsing, tooling, google
Help Google Search Know the Best Date for Your Web Page (joh)69
google, time
Announcing Domain-Wide Data in Search Console68
google, tooling, domains
The Two Faces of AMP (tka)67
amp, google, open-web
Mobile-First Indexing66
google, mobile, mobile-first
Helping Users Easily Access Content on Mobile65
google, mobile, content
AMP Your Content—a Preview of AMP’ed Results in Search64
google, amp
Indexing HTTPS Pages by Default63
google, http, security
Deprecating Our AJAX Crawling Scheme (nag)62
google, crawling, ajax
Repeated Violations of Webmaster Guidelines61
google
Real-Time Search in JavaScript (osv)60
javascript, functionality
Google’s Handling of New Top Level Domains (joh)59
google, domains, seo
Better Presentation of URLs in Search Results58
google, urls
An Update on Doorway Pages57
google, seo
How to Create a Helpful and Better 404 Page (sma)56
how-tos, error-pages, user-experience, functionality
HTTPS as a Ranking Signal (met)55
google, security, http, seo
Testing robots.txt Files Made Easier54
robotstxt, testing, tooling, crawling, google
Understanding Web Pages Better (hpe+)53
google, javascript
3 Tips to Find Hacking on Your Site, and Ways to Prevent and Fix It52
google, security, tips-and-tricks
3 Guidelines for Search Engine “No Results” Pages (nng)51
guidelines, usability
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests50
backlinks, links, seo, google
Google’s Knowledge Graph—Has Search Just Changed Forever? (the)49
google, semantic-web
Pagination With “rel="next"” and “rel="prev"”48
html, metadata, pagination, google, seo
Introducing schema.org: Search Engines Come Together for a Richer Web47
introductions, structured-data, google, microsoft, yahoo
A “rel=canonical” Corner Case46
google, urls, metadata
Making Websites Mobile Friendly (pie)45
mobile, urls, google
Google 2000 vs. Google 201144
google, retrospectives, spam, comparisons
Breaking the Web With Hash-Bangs43
urls, javascript
Google Now Indexes SVG (jsa)42
google, svg, images
URL Removals Explained: Removing Sensitive Text From a Page (joh)41
google, urls, privacy
A Few Thoughts on SSL Search40
google, ssl
Rich Snippets Go International39
google
Working With Multilingual Websites38
internationalization, localization, urls, unicode, seo, google
State of the Index 200937
videos, google
Search Engines Take on Structured Data (dck/w3c)36
structured-data, microformats, rdf, google
Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches (ore)35
interviews, google, microformats, rdf, structured-data
One-Line Sitelinks34
google
Detecting Googlebombs33
google
A New Google Sitemap Generator for Your Website (joh)32
tooling, sitemaps, google
Google “Not Interested in Semantic Search”31
google, yahoo, semantic-web
The Future of Search According to Google (cat)30
google, outlooks
Interview With Matt Cutts29
videos, interviews, google, spam
Improved Flash Indexing28
google, flash, seo
Crawling Through HTML Forms27
google, crawling, forms, html
Speaking the Language of Robots (sha)26
robotstxt, google, tooling
Tips for Making Information Universally Accessible25
accessibility, google, tips-and-tricks
Debunking a Misconception, Plus a Reminder of How Search Engines Work24
google, censorship
Sitemaps FAQs23
sitemaps, google
Subdomains and Subdirectories22
google, seo, domains
Matt Cutts Discusses the “alt” Attribute21
videos, html, images, alt-text, accessibility, google
Matt Cutts Discusses Snippets20
videos, seo, google
A Spider’s View of Web 2.0 (gre)19
google, accessibility, progressive-enhancement, web-2.0
New robots.txt Feature and REP Meta Tags18
robotstxt, metadata, html, google
Best Uses of Flash17
flash, google, best-practices
Google Hell?16
google
Discover Your Links15
google, links
Controlling How Search Engines Access and Index Your Website14
robotstxt
How Search Results May Differ Based on Accented Characters and Interface Languages13
google, localization
Quick Comment on “nofollow”12
spam, google, metadata
Using a robots.txt File (van)11
robotstxt, google
New robots.txt Tool10
robotstxt, tooling, google
SEO Advice: URL Canonicalization9
seo, urls, google
Hotwiring Your Search Engine (msn)8
seo, google, yahoo, microsoft
Including Site Pages in a Sitemap (van)7
sitemaps, google
Google Search Tips 2005 (blo)6
google, tips-and-tricks
Submitting Mobile Sitemaps (van)5
google, sitemaps, mobile
5 Questions for Your Web Development Team (joh)4
mobile, performance, legal, accessibility, maintainability, extensibility
Redesigning Google’s Search Results Page3
google, redesigning, design
Weblogging vs. the Googliath (dig)2
blogging, google, seo
Deep Linking Is Good Linking (nng)1
links, usability