Whale, whale, whale... it's come to this. Now trolling on LinkedIn too: linkedin.com/in/garyillyes

(mostly posting it for @rustybrick)

始まります。
が、PUBCONよりも圧倒的に寒いです。
通りでジャケット着ている人が多いわけだ。寒すぎてダメかもしらん。。

@kimuyan ありのままの姿見せるのよ
ありのままの自分になるの
何も怖くない
風よ吹け
少しも寒くないわ

"We need very few links to rank pages... Over the years we've made links less important." @methode #serpconf2024

@patrickstox I shouldn't have said that... I definitely shouldn't have said that

@Naomiit14 alright

Having trouble w/indexing? @methode reiterates that quality is the most important thing to focus on, which is followed by popularity on the web. For the latter, social media can help as your content is shared & referenced across the web: searchenginejournal.com/google-indexin… via @mattgsouthern

@glenngabe @methode Can Gary clarify exactly how Google measures “popularity” on non-Google properties? And how that affects indexing?

@mikefutia @glenngabe yes

Question for @methode - sometimes I discover a website's Sitemaps files indexing Google.

When Google accesses Sitemaps files, do they always make the file itself available in search results?

Also, if a site didn't wish the Sitemaps available via search, how could they block?

@Making8 @searchmartin @methode @JohnMu @googlesearchc @Google Good answer, though I can point to spreadsheets, RSS feeds, pages of code, etc that are more useful because they're findable - even in many cases to the non-techies.

Google apparently doesn't agree with you, else it'd be easy to keep all Sitemaps from being indexed.

@si1very @Making8 @searchmartin @JohnMu @googlesearchc @Google You summoned me?

We do indeed sitemap files sometimes, mostly when someone links to them for whatever reason. If you don't like to see them in the results, add the noindex header Martin suggested.

PS welcome to my daily Twitter digest

Google has a new crawler named "GoogleOther" that is basically there to free up resources for Googlebot and used by Google product teams for internally building the Google index - no comment on if this is used for Bard seroundtable.com/google-crawler… via @methode

@methode @rustybrick Any chance to be more specific on the historical part?

@andrea_moro @rustybrick like, random one-off crawls we used to do for learning something. Wanna learn how many sites *require* an accept language request header? run a crawl job. This used to be with googlebot, now it's gonna be with GoogleOther.
Please don't overthink it, it's really that boring.

@JohnMu @dannysullivan @methode do you ever read the Google Help communitys for respective product? (When not doing a announcement).

@mobilanyheter @JohnMu @dannysullivan can't speak for the other two gents, but I spend about an hour every week lurking in the webmaster forums, yeah

Google's @methode confirms that Google does use domain name records to discover new domains for crawling and indexing (something they probably have been doing for 20+ years) seroundtable.com/google-search-…

@rustybrick Good news! You're in my daily roundup!

Just wanted to reiterate that no one should ever rely on this. We can only ever discover one URL with this method and it's way, way more likely we'd crawl that one URL if you'd seeded it through Search Console for example. so just don't

Hey @methode @JohnMu seeing examples of Google equating "trans" with "transsexual" AND "transfer" - here's a featured snippet example.

@RyanJones @JohnMu thanks. let the team know

@RyanJones @JohnMu thanks again for the report. this should be fixed now

.@methode points out that there are no different indexes for news and other content. And that news indexing does not render the page on the initial indexing, So as a news site focus on not using js rendered website #fos23

@hellemans it's a bit more subtle than "news doesn't render". when you need to index fast, you need to have tighter deadlines and that might mean, for example, that we end up with the raw HTML in serving for a few minutes. It she's eventually fixes itself, but still

SEOs, does cold outreach link building still work? I don't know anybody who responds to those requests.

@RyanJones I do 👀

many things you see in the quality raters guidelines are not really important to the algorithm, but are important to the users rating the algorithm results. I'm paraphrasing Gary here. #pubcon

@rustybrick @RyanJones @JohnMu This was more like "raters rate the changes, not sites", eg raters don't tinker with the algorithm knobs

@rustybrick @RyanJones @JohnMu also why this tweet was sent to me as THE daily summary is a mystery

@methode can you tell me anything about #EXIFimageData
Do you know where and how Google search uses EXIF Data. I am getting rather conflicting info in my follow up discussions on all social platforms that I use.
#Frankie2Socks

@methode Many thanks. I truly appreciate your input here. I do not use Mastodon, but will look into that. Back in 2004 this was discussed and I was informed that image meta data was used extensively to add value to search issues. I believed it then, and I believe it now.
#Frankie2Socks

@info4u2use Yeah, we did use it a while back, we even pulled some of it for display on search results, but things change

So, @jonoalderson noticed this new doc re: combining sitemap extensions:

developers.google.com/search/docs/cr…

Not new functionality, but a new doc. I don't think many will think combining XML sitemaps is a good idea now, let me explain, but I also have an idea: 🧵 1/3

@JohnMu @jdevalk @facan Just to be clear about the rationale behind that new doc: we got documentation feedback asking for an example of combining extensions. That's the only reason we added that new doc.
Long term I have no problems with working together to improve the sitemaps protocol, just not now