I'm thinking about a project where a bunch of devices that are behind firewalls would check in with a URL on a public web server on a regular basis to see if they should run a command. I think a lot ...

A website can lose not only visitors but search engine rankings as well if the search engine is not able to follow URLs to that site. It is therefore essential to get the redirects correctly in place.

One of the most significant threats that remain on the internet is the websites themselves. Adware has been known to spread most of the malware, and they were top on the chart in one of the recent ...

On January 31, Google released the URL Inspection API, enabling you to programmatically check the status of URLs in bulk (based on properties you have access to in GSC). Although you could always ...

In Reorganizing XML Sitemaps with Python for Fun & Profit, I covered how to reorganize XML sitemaps to isolate indexing problems. Let’s say you followed that process and now you have dozens of ...

One of the classic tasks to automate with scripts is checking all your URLs for 404 errors. Google has their own Link Checker script, for instance. But this only tells you if a page is broken in a ...