HTTP status codes, like 404, 301, and 500, might not mean much to a regular visitor, but they are incredibly important for SEO. Not only that, search engine spiders, like Googlebot, use these to determine the health of a site. These...
Category: HTTP headers
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HTTP headers, Technical SEO
HTTP 503: Handling site maintenance correctly for SEO
Sometimes, your site will need some downtime, so you can fix things or update plugins. Most of the time, this tends to be a relatively short period in which Google will most likely not attempt to crawl your website. However,...
Crawl directives, HTTP headers, Technical SEO
Preventing your site from being indexed, the right way
We’ve said it way back when, but we’ll repeat it: it keeps amazing us that there are still people using just a robots.txt files to prevent indexing of their site in Google or Bing. As a result, their site shows...
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