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simoncox

@simoncox@seocommunity.social

Technical SEO and general webmastery stuff in the UK since 1995. Also at: https://mastodon.social/@simoncox
and:
https://www.simoncox.com
https://coxand.co.uk

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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.

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

malarkey, to random
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👉 New on S&N: Disallowing Disallow

“Turns out, the Robots.txt file was preventing search engines from crawling the archives folder, which then meant that Google couldn’t then read the robots meta tags and know to noindex the pages. Damn.”

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. 😀

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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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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."

simoncox,
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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.

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

#cricket

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@rhyswynne

Could be called up yet!

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.

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_
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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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@Fizzle_Up I just had Linkedin lose my feed. DDG is defo having issues

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@Fizzle_Up
The AI's have just gone sentient.

simoncox,
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@Fizzle_Up Of course i was forgetting Linkedin is also a Microsoft company - yes they are having a mare! Probably forgot to renew a domain or cert!

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@Fizzle_Up It will be the cleaner with the vacuum - always is.

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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!

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!

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@christian Same!

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@pch
Then my mission is almost complete!

simoncox, to random
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Free update to Affinity 2.5 suite now out! Includes flexible font controls!

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/whats-new/?utm_source=affinity_subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2_5_update&utm_id=uk&utm_term=v2_ul_owners

Richard_Littler, to vinyl
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Ear worm.
I can't shift 'See Saw' by .
it again.

Harvest Records label: Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair, side 4.

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@Richard_Littler

Ooh my first ever album - good choice!

rhyswynne, to random
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A General Election is needed, but does anybody else have a knot in their stomach that the Tories are going to pull off something amazing (unlikely) or there's more twats than you think on this godforsaken island (likely) and they'd creep in again?

simoncox,
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@rhyswynne

July... 4th.

Think he will announce today as a favour to someone to take the heat off the Paula Vennells testament today...

simoncox,
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@rhyswynne
He can do both! The count will be overnight anyway!

But it is Rishi’s fault.

ernie, to random
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I bought udm14.com. Check out what I put there.

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@ernie
Ho Ho - very good!

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