Quentin Adt's Notes

Month: May 2020

  • Google and Canonical URL

    In this post I will change the canonical URL in the <head>, just to see how Google and Googlebot behave between discovery of the URL discovered in the tag.

    The canonical tag looks like this:

    <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.url-to-crawl.com" />

    I’ve changed the URL in this example on purpose, in order to make sure that Googlebot discovers the URL only through the rel canonical tag.

    I’ll keep you posted with the results !

    Edit 15 days after: Googlebot didn’t crawl the URL set in the canonical !

  • Impact of search of images on log for SEO

    I recently stated a huge difference between the traffic monitored in the Search Console and what I could find in the log files using Kelogs log analyzer. My first hypothesis is that Google Image could be at the origin of this difference, with a preload in background. Second hypothesis is that the first results in Google Web is preloaded if the page is usually too slow.

    Protocol to check the first hypothesis:

    I’ll try to get the image below indexed for this website, despite it is hosted on amazon, and I will live check the impact on log files when I search for it in Google.

    Let’s come back in few days when Googlebot will have indexed this page and display the image in Google Image (I’ll use “site:quentinadt.com” to check it).

    So here is the picture of someone swimming:

    A women crawling

    To check the second hypothesis, Ill make a page which is very slow but ranks on a specific unique keyword.