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Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

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6 Oct
Google Explains Couldn’t Fetch Sitemap Errors via @sejournal, @martinibuster

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2 Sept
Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google's Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web pages every day.</p> <p>The post <a

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14 Oct
Google Explains How They Rank PDFs And What It Means For SEO/GEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google explains how it ranks PDFs in Search and AI Mode and how to check if a PDF is SEO friendly.</p> <p>The post <a

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17 Jun
Google Explains Why URLs Blocked By Robots.txt Can Still Be Indexed via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Search Console reported 51,000 URLs as "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt," and Google says that's not necessarily a problem.</p> <p>The post <a

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7 Apr
Google Explains Why It Doesn’t Matter That Websites Are Getting Larger via @sejournal, @martinibuster

<p>Google explains why it doesn't matter if websites are getting heavier and the takeaway has everything to do with SEO.</p> <p>The post <a

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