House Elf and Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google. Tentatively active on Mastodon
Joined October 2008
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Whale, whale, whale... it's come to this. Now trolling on LinkedIn too: linkedin.com/in/garyillyes
(mostly posting it for @rustybrick)
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If you're waiting for a new episode of Search Off the Record, we're probably going to miss our schedule. Sorry about that
More at linkedin.com/posts/garyillye…
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It is time. Come and join us on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@methode
Or don't. I'm a tweet, not a cop.
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glad there's still people out there who can remind me with their baseless (and rather stupid, really) accusations that i should take a break from twitter. goodbye
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Q: a page on my site keeps disappearing from search, but reappears when i submit to indexing in webmaster tools. Why?
A: the page is likely very close to, but still above the quality threshold below which Google doesn't index pages.
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as we fine new URLs, the page may fall out the index, but then you breathe new life into it temporarily by submitting to the index manually.
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27 Jul 2021
✨ SEOs of the World ✨
🔸 A list of 750 SEOs from different parts of the world.
🔸 My list is not about showing top/best SEOs to follow and rank them, it's just a way to recognize a fellow SEO.
🔸 In alphabetical order.
#SEO
praveensharma.co/seo/seos-of… via @MusingPraveen
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Spider: "WHAT'S MY NAME?!"
GB: "Umm... Francis?"
26 Jul 2021
If you monetize your websites and blogs with affiliate links or sponsored and guest posts, it's very important to qualify these 🔗 🔗 links. Learn more about commercial links and link spam → goo.gle/3kYbvsM
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I don't know who needs to hear this but putting work in core web vitals doesn't mean that the site can't lose rankings over time.
I also washed my car hundreds of times and it still left me standing on the highway.
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they let me tweet, but i had to make it boring. i'm very sad so I'm going to break something else.
23 Jul 2021
You may have noticed an increase in soft 404 error reports in Search Console the past few weeks. Thank you for all the reports you've sent our way!
The team identified the classifier that was causing the issue and deactivated it while they fine-tune it.
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just submitted a change that updates all schema.org references to HTTPS instead of HTTP on Search Central.
This change was requested a number of times, but it's a no-op change: it doesn't change how we use SD and you don't have to change a thing. FOR REALS. 1/2
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schema.org references in structured data are just that, references. They are URIs that machines use to identify types and other resources, and they're only act as URLs so we, humans, can navigate our lives easier. 2/2
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If you don't have anything better to do, @LizziHarvey and gary just published a set of docs about how certain search operators (site:, cache:, related:, src:, imagesize:) work, and also their limitations.
developers.google.com/search…
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If you use any of these in other ways, would love to document it!
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hands up if you asked us recently for how long you should keep redirects in place!
i have a concrete answer now: at least 1 year.
(but try keeping them indefinitely if you can for your users).
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see point 6 of this section for the rationale behind the 1 year: developers.google.com/search…
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in Switzerland you get cake (or an apple 🤢) for getting vaccinated. kinda hope this is retroactive and i can get some zuger kirschtorte 🤤
20 Jul 2021
Wir sagen allen «Danke», die mithelfen, dass die Schweiz mit der Impfung gut vorwärts kommt: der Bevölkerung, den zahlreichen Mitarbeitenden in den Impfzentren, Arztpraxen und Apotheken und den kantonalen Gesundheitsbehörden.
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have you ever seen a wedge of cheese catapulted off of a mountain? if not, you're in luck, because we don't do that here either. #StaySafe
6 Jul 2021
🎙️Don't miss #SearchOfftheRecord this week! 📢
@JohnMu @methode @g33konaut & guest 🌟 Duy discuss search quality:
🗑️ Tackling web spam
📞 Responding to manual actions
🛑 Preventing hacks
🎧→ goo.gle/sotr020
✍️→ goo.gle/sotr020-transcript
▶️ → goo.gle/sotr020-YouTube
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