Tales of Robots.txt: Uncrawled URLs in Google Search
In this case study, I identified that Google was reporting on URLs blocked in the robots.txt file in the “Valid with warnings” report and how I resolved the problem very slowly.
Adam Gent
14 Tips for First-Year SEO Freelancers
It has been an interesting year and I wanted to make sure I captured some quick tips for anyone starting out.
Gent of Search Business Report 2020-21
A 2020-21 business report and the lessons learned in my first year of being self-employed.
A Curious Case of Canonicalization
In this case study, I found one of my own blog posts had not been indexed by Google. So, naturally being a technical SEO specialist I investigated it.
How Blocking 4xx and 5xx Rendering Resources can Reveal Googlebot’s True Server Response
In this pointless crawl budget experiment, I blocked two resources which returned a 404 and 502 Googlebot spent a lot of time crawling each day.
How to simulate Googlebot using Chrome
I created a way to replicate Googlebot to debug crawling issues called the Chromebot technique.
Googlebot doesn’t use rel=next/prev in crawling
I did a test in April 2019 to see if rel=“next” and “prev” tags were used in crawling to discover new content.
Why the rel=”canonical” HTTP Header is faster than the rel=”canonical” HTML tag
I did a quick test in 2018 to find out if an HTML canonical tag and the rel=”canonical” HTTP header are analysed at the same speed in Google’s index.
Officially going freelance and launching Gent of Search
I am happy to announce that I am now a Freelance Technical SEO Consultant.
