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Rendering, Style, and Layout: When Things Go Wrong 

ByFelina Tan December 15, 2025December 12, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Crawler Rendering ≠ User Rendering At Tech SEO Connect 2025, our R&D Director, Giacomo Zecchini, showed how crawler behaviour differs…

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Best Practice

URL Encoding Done Right: Best Practices for Web Developers and SEOs

ByRyan Siddle June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 Reading Time: 10 minutes

Introduction Modern web developers and SEO teams share the complex challenge of creating URLs that function seamlessly across languages, platforms,…

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AI Search | Traffic Engineering

Don’t Block What You Want: DuckDuckGo and Common Crawl to Provide IP Address API Endpoints

ByRyan Siddle June 19, 2025June 23, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Your security rules are blocking the traffic you actually want. If search engines and LLM crawlers can’t reach your content,…

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Uncategorized

Introducing our Bing Webmaster Tools API Python Client

ByRyan Siddle November 11, 2024November 11, 2024 Reading Time: 5 minutes

For organisations managing large-scale SEO operations, accessing and analysing Bing Webmaster Tools (“BWT”) data programmatically has become increasingly crucial. Today,…

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Research

How Extra HTML Attributes in Canonical Tags Impact Search Engines

ByPedro Dias August 13, 2024August 13, 2024 Reading Time: 7 minutes

TL;DR Our study, sparked by a content management system (CMS) migration anomaly discovered that certain attributes caused Google to ignore…

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Research

Google’s JavaScript Rendering Capabilities

ByRyan Siddle July 31, 2024September 30, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

In a significant step towards debunking some persistent SEO myths and increasing industry understanding of search engine crawling and rendering,…

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Legal & Compliance | Research

Investigating Reddit’s robots.txt Cloaking Strategy

ByRyan Siddle July 4, 2024July 5, 2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Introduction We recently noticed a post on X by @pandraus regarding Reddit’s robots.txt file. On 25 June 2024, u/traceroo announced…

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Research

Discovering and Diagnosing a Google AdSense Rendering Bug

ByGiacomo Zecchini April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Reading Time: 15 minutes

Introduction AdSense is Google’s advertising content platform where publishers can be paid to place advertisements on their webpages. While performing…

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Research

Optimising Next.js Image Component for Image Search

ByGiacomo Zecchini January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes

All domain and content management systems carry degrees of risk when migrating from one platform to another. Some industries benefit…

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Case Study | Research

Managing Webpages Resources for Efficient Crawling and Rendering

ByGiacomo Zecchini November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 Reading Time: 15 minutes

Introduction Search engines have a large, but finite amount of resources. Some websites can be hundreds of millions of webpages…

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