Hands up if you're using Bert, Bart, and Bard interchangeably when casually chatting about Mom... MUM?

@rustybrick @lizzi @johnmu yeah, and it's weighing on me like a brick

@rustybrick @lizzi @johnmu just cleaned it up; it collected a lot of potentially unnecessary sentences over the years. And we linked out to a couple external resources from those with more working knowledge on site moves (I haven't done a proper site move in over a decade /shrug)

why were you late to our meeting?
me: turkey, that's why

@wksears well you can only put stuff in the header with http redirects; there's no body.
But anyway, I need to be reasonably vague here and I hate it and I apologize for that: I think we shouldn't forward the noindex with redirects unless we can be exceptionally certain that the target also wants the noindex. I imagine that on same site the noindex would forward in some cases, but across sites it would not. This is a pretty bad hijack vector, hence being vague

@MontseCano @rustybrick that's an overstatement. Haven't spoken any Spanish for years, but my understanding level is still pretty high fortunately

@johnmu no

We regularly (enough) run into CDNs that return 403/404/410 on DDOS interstitials. Returning a normal HTTP error code when the site is overloaded will result in those pages dropping out of the search results. Make sure any interstitial you use (or your CDN uses) returns 429 or 503 instead.

More:
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/dont-404-my-yum

#cdn #ddos #seo #google

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@wksears sounds like a pretty neat hijack scenario

lemme dig up the exact details and I'll try to document this if it's not too crazy

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@rustybrick valentine's day, dude! ♥️

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@jon @johnmu @ajkohn @ianlurie oh yeah, I meant I'll ask the team to add the missing jump too

@johnmu @ajkohn @ianlurie looks curious. I'll file a bug

@johnmu last time I clicked one of your links I got logged out...

Note to self: get an "I'm trolling" sign AND USE IT

@rasmushe @johnmu 301s are great when you have at least a close-to 1:1 match for the URL and you want to consolidate them, perhaps even if the language of the content doesn't match. 404s for everything else. But that could be just me; I love deleting stuff

Sigh. It was spam...

@johnmu yes