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John Mueller has been deindexed by Google (google.com)
5 points by rrr_oh_man on March 13, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Confusing robots.txt which includes

   user-agent: *
   disallow: /
and hundreds of spam URLs. Did the website get overrun by content spammers at one point?

   disallow: /mineralstriplestomboyslocksmithsflattopswainscoting
   noindex: /worthygipsy?reformatting
   disallow: /abolitionistspotfulsnonabsorbentconvergingsuitors
   allow: /foibles/amaliatareseffigypunishingpurposes


Uh, according to the site, he works for Google. Are you sure he didn't just delist himself to stop crawlers in the logs or something?


"I used the Search Console tool to try something out. I might make a fast recovery if I hit the right button :-)."

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