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Giving Robots an all Access Pass

Jes Scholz
Technical SEO
SearchLove London 2019 2019

Optimising crawl budget and encouraging search engine indexation are concepts most SEOs are familiar with. But the devil is in the details. Especially as best practices have altered in recent years and will do so again with the introduction of indexing APIs by both Google and Bing. Should you control crawlers with robots directives? Or XML sitemaps? Or submit via the APIs? Or just let Google figure it out? In this session, Jes will delve into the optimal way to get your content into search engines fast.

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