by Carolyn Holzman
July 29, 2025 Confessions S5 – Ep 28 NAVAR What It Seems: Google’s Korean Crawler Mystery The Discovery – A Strange Crawler Appears July 19, 2025: Unusual user agent spotted DNS-confirmed Google IP with suspicious identity The user agent string...
by Carolyn Holzman
July 15, 2025 episode Is There a Real Connection Between the Helpful Content Update and Gemini? After creating the episode I wondered if there was a way to confirm based on timelines if my supposition showed continued relationship with such a parallel development and...
by Carolyn Holzman
There Is No Such Thing As Helpful Content That’s what creators should know about this. Even Google tells you it looks for UN-helpful content. Don’t just believe me, click on the image to see it in the Google Developer Docs. How Google’s Helpful...
by Carolyn Holzman
For the past few days that culminated in this morning’s rash of the search console request indexation issues, more and more are reporting an error when they attempt to submit their existing or new content through Search Console. If this is you today (or tomorrow or in...
by Carolyn Holzman
Having only done this once before and not with the podcast per se – it took me a minute to figure out which podcast source would let me embed my own “damn” episode. “What Would John (Mueller) Do” If you’re here you likely listened...
by Carolyn Holzman
This “paper” is a rundown of not just the Google InspectionTool crawlers but how they behaved in the lead up to July 1, 2023, the date when Google Analytics 4 “forced migration” for any sites using Google Analytics and completely retired...
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