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Should You Cloak Your Tests? (Yes)

Website testing is one of those jobs I'm more interested in than SEO, but am too far gone to embrace a career change that would still keep me at a computer.

Disallow Humans (Bad Cloaking)

I cloaked this very website for >1 month.

A Little Negative SEO

Remove Outdated Content Tool is OP, rebalance needed in next patch.

Another Way To Deindex URLs

Deindexing my site with unavailable_after: [date/time] and then moaning about it?

Custom Sitemaps for Faster Issue Validation

You can limit Search Console's issue validation to specific Sitemaps submitted in Google Search Console.

Some Ways to Think About Pagination

Some ways to think about pagination.

Render Gauntlet (Request Blocking)

I thought this was one of the more interesting issues I’d seen recently, so thought was worth sharing.

Hiding XML Sitemaps

Contrarian idiocy about how you might allow and XML Sitemap to be discoverable for search engines, but not competitors.

Zero Cumulative Layout Shift, Please Improve Cumulative Layout Shift

A post about that time a client had poor CLS according to Google Tooling, yet scored 0 on all example URLs.

Search Console Crawl Stats URL Parameters

Enumerating URL parameters in Search Console to find stuff