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simoncox

@simoncox@seocommunity.social

Technical SEO and general webmastery stuff in the UK since 1995. Very dry sense of humour.

Also at: https://mastodon.social/@simoncox
and:
https://www.simoncox.com
https://coxand.co.uk

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#Webmaster
#Boardgames
#Breadmaking
#NarrowGaugeModelling

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Fizzle_Up, to SEO
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Is something going on that I'm missing...? Both Bing & Duck Duck Go seem to be down at the moment.

Not helpful when I'm trying to test stuff.

simoncox,
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@michael_martinez @Fizzle_Up

i was look at Mojeek.com for the first time today and it seems to be good. Though not sure the apparently AI driven summary view works for me!

mikestreety, to random
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My new mantra, when doing DIY, is now:

"Treat my tools as if they are my dad's"

My dad takes care over his tools (I do not), so if I borrow any of his, I make sure I am using it correctly and as it was intended and that it gets packed away clean and neat.

I even jet washed his jet washer the other day as I had got it dirty ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

simoncox,
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@mikestreety
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simoncox,
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@mikestreety
Quite right! My dad used to say to me Look after your tools and they will look after you!

What are you diying?

sturobson, to random
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just restrung one of my guitars (before hocking it on eBay) for the first time in ~15 years.

An 2010-11 Ibanez DN600 Darkstone in shattered mirror sparkle.

simoncox,
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@sturobson
It's a Block Buster! Very Glam Rock!

simoncox, to random
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Wow the new QR code maker in Affinity designer builds the shape as a vector and changes as you type in the URL or whatever you are pointing it at.

Which means you can do silly things like this!

simoncox,
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@pch
Then my mission is almost complete!

ilovechoclates_, to random
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I noindexed 3 service pages 9 days ago and it's interesting to see that they're still in the index and it even got clicks.

It seems like this page hasn't been crawled again, because when I did the live test it said that google couldn't index this page.

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@ilovechoclates_
You could use Screaming Frog to find all the links in your site and then you have your changes list - cannot be that onerous! Otherwise you could give the remove URL tool in GSC a go - its only temporary, 6 months i have heard but that probably depends. Never measured that myself.

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@ilovechoclates_
Yep. I have urls from hundreds of years ago still in the index.
If you realy want that page to be noindexed then change the url - redirect the old one to something else appropriate and of course keep the noindex.

jon, to random
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simoncox,
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@jon
Perfect.

ilovechoclates_, to random
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When you're making 75th Google account and Google is tired of you using the same number for all of them lol

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@ilovechoclates_ ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ

simoncox,
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@ilovechoclates_
Hmmmm. That's 71 more than i have... Why do you need so many?

simoncox, to SEO
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Well that was quick...

Google Gemini already admitting that Google have siteAuthority.

MikeBlazer, to Health
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Someone said they would never hire fat people, explaining that overweight people could not be trusted because if they lost the most precious thing in life - their body, their health - how could you trust them not to ruin the business they were hired to do?

While I don't endorse this opinion, I have to admit that it has been on my mind for about a year now.

I mean, I've been thinking about my body and my health.

1/2

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@MikeBlazer
I tend to trick into thinking its fine with a drop or two of the Angels Share.

I was quite sick as a young kid so everyday has been win since.

malarkey, to random
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I got my blood test results back, and theyโ€™re completely fine. Which doesnโ€™t explain why Iโ€™m so incredibly tired pretty much all the time.

simoncox,
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@malarkey

I believe that might be a build up of both age and cynicism.

Think I have a touch of it as well.

malarkey, to random
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๐Ÿ‘‰ New on S&N: Disallowing Disallow

โ€œTurns out, the Robots.txt file was preventing search engines from crawling the archives folder, which then meant that Google couldnโ€™t then read the robots meta tags and know to noindex the pages. Damn.โ€

https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/disallowing-disallow

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@chris22smith @malarkey

There is - obvs the robots. txt but if urls are indexed you usually want them out of the index so need to let Google read the pages noindex - then turn off using robots.txt Alternatively you can remove those urls from Google using Search Console. ๐Ÿ˜€

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@malarkey

Additionally Google will be following links from other sites to your old pages. Even if you get them out of the index it is still going to be looking for them because of the offsite links. And your old posts are going to have a lot of links!

simoncox, to random
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Cracking story!

66 year old grandma makes her international debut in Gibraltar's second T20 international against Estonia, at the age of 66 and 334 days!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c255j2eqy2xo

simoncox,
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@optimisey never had issues with my knees playing keeper - just my hands as at school I kept wicket for my house with Chris Penn bowling.

simoncox,
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@rhyswynne

Could be called up yet!

simoncox, to random
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First port of call: https://www.positive.news

jon, to random
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I donโ€™t use a phone case and my daughter observed me using my phone as a drink coaster, and now sheโ€™s concerned for my well being.

simoncox,
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@jon
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ernie, to random
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    simoncox,
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    @ernie
    Ignore them! There will always be someone moaning!

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    @ernie

    Tiny bit of irony there - they are not happy that you are tracking visits but happy to use Googleโ€ฆ
    ๐Ÿคฃ

    ilovechoclates_, to random
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    I am trying to figure out how to make the /blog the parent page for all the posts and it's getting hard ๐Ÿ˜ญ

    simoncox,
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    @ilovechoclates_

    Woah there. Never take an AI's word for anything. Test it yourself!

    simoncox, to random
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    A brilliant line from the amazing @kirstyhulse irregular email newsletter:

    "And I don't know about you, but magic rarely comes with a serious face in a serious suit."

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    @kirstyhulse

    And to add to this i used to have a serious suit and could only do the magic occasionally - yet was expected to produce it on tap.

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