Terms of use

Last updated: 8 September 2026

Using the site

You may read, print and share the material here for personal, educational and professional purposes. You may quote from it, including at length, provided the quotation is attributed to Search Engine Basics with a link to the page it came from.

You may not republish whole articles as your own, and you may not present material from this site as another person's work. Scraping the site to produce a derivative site is not permitted.

Automated access

Crawling is fine — it would be a strange position for this site to take otherwise. Respect the robots.txt file and use a reasonable request rate. Automated access that degrades the service for other readers may be blocked.

Accuracy and availability

The material here is provided as it is. We work hard to be accurate and to source every claim, and search engines change without notice. Nothing here is a guarantee of a particular outcome for your site, and the site may be unavailable at times.

Links to other sites

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Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss arising from the use of this site or from reliance on its content. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Changes

These terms may change. The date at the top of this page shows when they last did. Continuing to use the site after a change means accepting the revised terms.

Contact

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