Search Console, in plain words.
Every article here answers one exact message Google shows you — and says plainly whether anything is actually wrong.
why is my website redirecting to another website
Why is my website redirecting to another website? Two questions sort it: where they landed, and who was sent away.
Two questions sort it: where they landed ("/lander", a parked page, someone else's site) and who was sent away. Then who fixes each. Tested 1 October 2026.
how to know if your website has been hacked
How to know if your website has been hacked when your own screen says it is fine: five checks from outside, tried on Google's test pages and two clean sites.
Google says hacks are often invisible to users. Five outside checks: its status page, Chrome's red page, site:, Google's own fetch, a script-free fetch.
why does my website say not secure
Why does my website say "Not Secure"? Grey usually means http://, red the certificate — and since 22 September, Chrome 154 can ask before the page opens.
Grey "Not Secure" usually means plain http; red, above a full-page stop, the certificate. Since 22 Sep 2026 Chrome 154 can also ask first. Screen by screen.
is robots txt legally binding
Is robots.txt legally binding? The standard calls its rules requests, and the ruling everyone quotes is one claim wide.
The standard says its rules are not authorization, the companies say obeying is voluntary, and one US court called the file a request — on one narrow claim.
is llms txt worth it
My SEO plugin made an llms.txt. I read what nine AI companies document, and thirty days of its traffic.
Nine AI companies document nothing about reading a file like this, Google's search says it ignores them, and a month of my own drew nothing to it.
what cloudflare blocks when you block ai
What does Cloudflare block when you block AI? I turned the switches on and read what they wrote.
Cloudflare replaced its AI-bot switch on 15 September. Everything since restates the announcement. Here: four sites before and after, and what a block writes.
should i block ai bots from my website
Should I block AI bots from my website? I looked at what was knocking on mine, and most of it was not AI.
The pages answering this argue from principle. I measured: 1.1k "AI bot" requests, a failing server, a fix that blocked nobody, and who was really there.
how to get my business on chatgpt
How to get my business on ChatGPT? There is no form — there are three doors, and I had set none of mine.
There is no form. Three doors decide whether the program behind ChatGPT search can reach your site at all — and on my own four sites, I had set none of them.
Crawled - currently not indexed
"Crawled - currently not indexed" has no fix button. Here's the decision Google actually asks you to make.
The page was read, then left out — Google names no cause, no wait, no fix. Its own pages say so. What you can check, and the decision that's yours.
Soft 404
"Soft 404": the page opens fine in your browser — and Google treats it as not found
The page opens fine in your browser, yet Search Console says "Soft 404". What Google actually decided, why it calls that a belief, and where to see its side.