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Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

  Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP,  HTTP/2 or h2  for short, web professionals  asked us  whether Googlebot can crawl over the upgraded, more modern version of the protocol. Today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over HTTP/2 for select sites. What is HTTP/2 As we said, it's the next  major version of HTTP , the protocol the internet primarily uses for transferring data. HTTP/2 is much more robust, efficient, and faster than its predecessor, due to its architecture and the features it implements for clients (for example, your browser) and servers. If you want to read more about it, we have a long article on the  HTTP/2 topic on developers.google.com . Why we're making this change In general, we expect this change to make crawling more efficient in terms of server resource usage. With h2
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New open source robots.txt projects

  Last year we released the   robots.txt parser and matcher   that we use in our production systems to the open source world. Since then, we've seen people build new tools with it,   contribute   to the open source library (effectively improving our production systems- thanks!), and release new language versions like   golang   and   rust , which make it easier for developers to build new tools. With the intern season ending here at Google, we wanted to highlight two new releases related to robots.txt that were made possible by two interns working on the Search Open Sourcing team,  Andreea Dutulescu  and  Ian Dolzhanskii .  Robots.txt Specification Test First, we are releasing a  testing framework  for robots.txt parser developers, created by Andreea. The project provides a testing tool that can validate whether a robots.txt parser follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol, or to what extent. Currently there is no official and thorough way to assess the correctness of a parser, so Andr

New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data

  Quick summary : Starting today, we support   shippingDetails  schema.org markup   as an alternative way for retailers to be eligible for shipping details in Google Search results. Since June 2020, retailers have been able to list their products across different Google surfaces for free,  including on Google Search . We are committed to supporting ways for the ecosystem to better connect with users that come to Google to look for the best products, brands, and retailers by investing both in more robust tooling in  Google Merchant Center  as well as with new kinds of schema.org options. Shipping details, including cost and expected delivery times, are often a key consideration for users making purchase decisions. In our own studies, we’ve heard that users abandon shopping checkouts because of unforeseen or uncertain shipping costs. This is why we will often show shipping cost information in certain result types, including on free listings on Google Search (currently in the US, in Engli

The Search Console Training lives on

  In November 2019 we announced the   Search Console Training   YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The goal of the series was to create updated video content to be used alongside Search documentation, for example in the   Help Center   and in the   Developers site . The wonderful Google Developer Studio team (the engine behind those videos!) put together this fun blooper reel for the first wave of videos that we recorded in the Google London studio. So far we’ve published twelve episodes in the series, each focusing on a different part of the tool. We’ve seen it’s helping lots of people to learn how to use Search Console - so  we decided to continue recording videos… at home!  Please bear with the trucks, ambulances, neighbors, passing clouds, and of course the doorbell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In addition to the location change, we’re also changing the scope of the new videos. Instead of focusing on one report at a time, we’ll discuss how Search Console can help YOUR business.

Sharing what we learned on the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference

  The first Virtual Webmaster Unconference successfully took place on August 26th and, as promised, we’d like to share the main findings and conclusions here. How did the event go? As communicated before, this event was a pilot, in which we wanted to test a) if there was an appetite for a very different type of event, and b) whether the community would actively engage in the discussions. To the first question, we were overwhelmed with the interest to participate; it definitely exceeded our expectations and it gives us fuel to try out future iterations. Despite the frustration of many, who did not receive an invitation, we purposefully kept the event small. This brings us to our second point: it is by creating smaller venues that discussions can happen comfortably. Larger audiences are perfect for more conventional conferences, with keynotes and panels. The Virtual Webmaster Unconference, however, was created to hear the attendees’ voices. And we did. What did we learn in the session

Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search Console

Signed Exchanges (SXG) is a subset of the emerging family of specifications called  Web Packaging , which enables publishers to safely make their content portable, while still keeping the publisher’s integrity and attribution. In 2019,  Google Search started linking to signed AMP pages  served from Google’s cache when available. This feature allows the content to be prefetched without loss of privacy, while attributing the content to the right origin. Today we are happy to announce that sites implementing SXG for their AMP pages will be able to understand if there are any issues preventing Google from serving the SXG version of their page using the Google AMP Cache.  Check Out Original Post  https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/08/identify-and-fix-amp-signed-exchange.html

How to Start Earning online - Tips for online earning [2020]

How to Start Earning online Hi, I'm Sachin. I would like to inform you about some online earning tips.  The internet is filled with so many scams right now that it's difficult to even for talented people to find a good opportunity online. This is the reason I started sharing my online earning experience in legitimate ways to make money online and help you stay away from all the scams & time wasters out there. Unlike other sites, I’m not going to give you “108 ways to make money online”, where you have no idea where to start! First Way for online earning It is the easiest way to make money and takes very little time to start earning. and that method is: Writing Articles Online This is what you need to do: Register on iWriter Write your first article Even if you don’t know anything about writing articles, I suggest you give it a try. The Biggest Mistake you can make  The other day I was talking to my friend and he asked me: “Are there any online jobs

Reliance Jio's new call charges, voucher, free data offer: 5 things to know

For the first time, Reliance Jio customers will have to pay for making voice calls For every ₹10 you spent on call charges, Jio will give you 1 GB free data Not all voice calls made from a Reliance Jio mobile phone connection will now be free but the telecom operator has promised to refund the charges in the form of free internet data. Even though the charges for making voice calls to other mobile phone networks are as low as 6 paise a minute, it will be for the first time that Jio customers will have to pay for voice calls, free since its launch in 2016. All voice calls made to Non-Jio mobile numbers will be charged at 6 paise per minute from your next recharge. Reliance Jio's new call charges, voucher, free data offer 5 things to know about Jio's call charges, data offer: 1) Jio said due to the undergoing regulatory policy changes for mobile call related charges, it is compelled to recover Interconnect Usage Charge or IUC for all Non-Jio mobile voice calls. It me

The 4-step Creative Writing Process for Professional Bloggers [2020]

The 4-step Creative Writing Process for Professional Bloggers I've mentored 1000s of new bloggers in the past few years (through my 100-day blogging course), and do you know what is the most frequently asked question? "How do I write better blog posts?" This is the most important question to ask if you want to become a blogger. From my 10-years of experience in blogging, and inputs from other experienced bloggers, I have come up with a 4-step process for writing.  You can read it here: The 4-step Creative Writing Process for Professional Bloggers In this extensive article I've covered the 4-step process in depth... 1. Gain Knowledge by Learning 2. Add Experience from Past & Present 3. Go into Deep Thought 4. Manifest Your Ideas into Writing This is one of the most important and the longest blog post I've written on my blog.  Read it here:  The 4-step Creative Writing Process for Professional Bloggers I've also explained about t

What is your true power?

I have been thinking about this recently. And I thought I can share it with you... What is our TRUE power? What is YOUR true power as an individual human being? Is it money? Is it connections? Is it knowledge? Wisdom? Intelligence? All the above are potential energies. A lot of people have them. Not everyone has a lot, but everyone has something. You, with your life experience, will definitely have some money saved up, some knowledge and experience gained through the years and some intelligence. But what's the most powerful thing of this all? NONE of the above... None of these can be of any use if we do not use it. A high performance sports car is nothing without a driver to drive it forward. In my life experience, I have learned a thing or two. And I learned that, true power is always one thing: The power of  Getting Started. Initiative. Starting something is the most powerful thing. Many people are more skilled than me. Many people are having more resources than many succe