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Feeding AlsoAsked.com questions into AI

2nd February 202121st November 2020 by Mark

AI written at a desk by a professional coder

What is meant by Search Engine Optimisation? If you have been involved with the internet for any length of time then you must have heard the term “search engines”. If you have used the internet to find some information about some product or service, then your search led you to a web page that was …

Will Google discover pages from links on noindex pages? (x-robots & on-page)

10th February 202220th April 2020 by Mark

Google will not render Javascript on noindex pages. This test will see if a page with only 1 link from a page that is marked as noindex (x-robots and on-page) will get found.

SEO and PPC curated memes and shitposts

17th January 202115th September 2019 by Mark

[This page can take a while to load, because Twitter.] It’s forensic When the ‘expert’ #SEO recommends the 14-page website needs an “in-depth technical SEO audit”. pic.twitter.com/jNhVc5ENBv — Mark Williams-Cook = 🅼🅰🆁🅺 🅲🅾🅾🅺 (@thetafferboy) September 21, 2020 Title tags aren’t hard MRW an #SEO is insisting there is a ‘correct’ length for a title tag. …

Google’s crazy leg counting in featured snippets

23rd September 201912th May 2019 by Mark

I saw this thread about Google answering number of leg queries and thought I would expand to see how many I can find Google is getting wrong: Google is really, really bad at counting legs. pic.twitter.com/yM67Wy5Nan — ⓂⒶⓁⓉⒺ ⓁⒶⓃⒹⓌⒺⒽⓇ (@MalteLandwehr) May 11, 2019 Here are the examples I can find, including the ones in the …

Does noindex in robots.txt work with Google?

2nd July 201922nd April 2019 by Mark

Post updated: 02/07/2019No, not as of September 2019, according to a Twitter update from Gary Illyes who announced Google will be dropping undocumented support for noindex in robots.txt As promised a few weeks ago, i ran the analysis about noindex in robotstxt. The number of sites that were hurting themselves very high. I honestly believe …

Google appears good at ignoring canonical tags on non-equivalent pages

20th March 201920th March 2019 by Mark

TL;DR SEO test

I created two key phrase unique pages and tested if I could get one to rank for the other by using the canonical tag. Google completely ignored it.

Svertorobotingle – PHASE ONE of indexing (no javascript)

25th September 201928th January 2019 by Mark

TL;DR SEO test

New pages can appear almost instantly in Google SERPs for keyword searches. It appears it takes longer for Google Search Console to report these pages as indexed and that operators such as site: info: and cache: do not work immediately.