Google is replacing direct website links with its own 'search.app' or 'share.google' URLs when articles are shared directly from the Discover feed. To clarify the destination, shared links now include ...

The long-running clock on Google's URL shortener goo.gl finally has a death date: Aug. 25, 2025. That's when links that were shortened using the defunct service will no longer be accessible, according ...

Google’s John Mueller answered whether Google would use links in structured data for crawling. Getting links discovered, crawled, and then indexed is vital to SEO, so any available advantage for ...

When sharing a URL from the Google app on Android, Search and Discover automatically applies a link shortener. Google now offers a setting to turn this off. Previously, if you want to share a page you ...

Google is deploying its own link shorteners, search.app and share.google, for content shared from Discover. The new short links obscure source websites but retain the ability to generate rich previews ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...

Google's John Mueller said it is possible that Google Search Console's URL inspection tool can show a nofollowed link as the referring page but he also said it is rare. It does make you question if ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...

If you're looking for web links only in Google Search results, create a custom search shortcut for your browser. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering technology, ...

A year ago, I reported that the Google Search Console's URL inspection tool can show a nofollowed link as the referring page. But it also seems that the URL inspection tool can also show non-linked ...