Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML validity is not a ranking factor. The post Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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