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What can you actually put in a URL 🐔?

Can you put a chicken emoji 🐔in your domain name? What about your URL path? What about non-English characters? Welcome

PDFs in Search: Indexing, AI & Pitfalls

Should you publish your content as a PDF or stick strictly to standard HTML? Does Google treat PDF files differently…

Do sitemaps still matter?

Sitemaps have been a core element of web development and search engine optimization for two decades, yet Search Console

Japanese Google Search Office Hours（ #Google検索オフィスアワー 2026 年 09 月 24 日）

Google では、日本のサイト運営者のみなさまに向けて、2013 年より検索のご質問にお答えするオフィスアワーを定期的に行ってきました。幾度かのリブランディングを経て、2023 年 5 月より新しく Google 検索オフィスアワーとなり

Should you block your Search result pages?

Is your website’s internal search feature secretly acting as an open invitation for crawling lots and lots? In this epis

How to read the Indexing Report

Should you panic when your Search Console indexing report is showing pages that aren't indexed? Is a 404 error code…

Sales and marketing: three English-language YouTube channels worth a small business owner's time — and why there is no fourth

Three of the 14 English-language sales and marketing channels in our register, picked because a business of one to four…

Niching Down: Why Most Creatives Stay Broke

Niching down feels like turning away money, but serving everyone means serving no one. Why specialisation, constraints and pushing through…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock plan for every American kid

Elon Musk plans to give SpaceX stock to every American child next year, an estimated $10.5 billion pledge that could…

AI Agents Should Be Every Microentrepreneur’s First Hire

AI agents can handle invoicing, support, and outreach before you hire anyone. Here's why solo founders should treat one as…