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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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
3 years
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
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Since I wrote this in private conversations dozens of times the past couple days, I hope this will save some time: Googlers outside the US don't know yet if they lost their jobs; it will take a few...
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
3 years
It is time. Come and join us on Mastodon: https://t.co/dMSlcV25af Or don't. I'm a tweet, not a cop.
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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@MusingPraveen
Praveen Sharma
4 years
✨ 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 https://t.co/YqYwsgTrAa via @MusingPraveen
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
Spider: "WHAT'S MY NAME?!" GB: "Umm... Francis?"
@googlesearchc
Google Search Central
4 years
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 → https://t.co/piENjy5azO
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
they let me tweet, but i had to make it boring. i'm very sad so I'm going to break something else.
@googlesearchc
Google Search Central
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
https://t.co/UaBPJb2oO7 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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
just submitted a change that updates all https://t.co/UaBPJb2oO7 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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
If you use any of these in other ways, would love to document it!
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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. https://t.co/247REhYXtR
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developers.google.com
Learn about the different Google Search operators that we support and discover how they can help you monitor and debug your website.
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
see point 6 of this section for the rationale behind the 1 year:
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developers.google.com
Learn how to change the URLs of existing site pages, including domain name changes. Explore moving a website with little impact on search results.
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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
in Switzerland you get cake (or an apple 🤢) for getting vaccinated. kinda hope this is retroactive and i can get some zuger kirschtorte 🤤
@BAG_OFSP_UFSP
BAG – OFSP – UFSP
4 years
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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Gary 鯨理/경리 Illyes (so official, trust me)
4 years
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
@googlesearchc
Google Search Central
4 years
🎙️Don't miss #SearchOfftheRecord this week! 📢 @JohnMu @methode @g33konaut & guest 🌟 Duy discuss search quality: 🗑️ Tackling web spam 📞 Responding to manual actions 🛑 Preventing hacks 🎧→ https://t.co/gCMC39uUzh ✍️→ https://t.co/iQQC0GUk13 ▶️ → https://t.co/iL2bgNUHcL
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