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House Elf and Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google. Tentatively active on Mastodon
Zurich, Switzerland
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) – at Zurich, Switzerland
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… – at Zurich, Switzerland
It is time. Come and join us on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@methode
Or don't. I'm a tweet, not a cop.
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 – at Zurich, Switzerland
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. – at Zurich, Switzerland
😳 – at Zurich, Switzerland
✨ 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
Spider: "WHAT'S MY NAME?!"
GB: "Umm... Francis?" – at Zurich, Switzerland
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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. – at Zurich, Switzerland
they let me tweet, but i had to make it boring. i'm very sad so I'm going to break something else.
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 – at Zurich, Switzerland
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 – at Zurich, Switzerland
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…
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). – at Zurich, Switzerland
see point 6 of this section for the rationale behind the 1 year: developers.google.com/search… – at Zurich, Switzerland
in Switzerland you get cake (or an apple 🤢) for getting vaccinated. kinda hope this is retroactive and i can get some zuger kirschtorte 🤤 – at Zurich, Switzerland
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 – at Zurich, Switzerland
🎙️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
