Heads-up! The October 2023 Spam Update is now rolling out:
"This spam update aims to clean up several types of spam that our community members reported in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages. We expect this to reduce the visible spam in search results, particularly when it comes to cloaking, hacked, auto-generated, and scraped spam."
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/10/october-2023-spam-update
If you don't want Google to train its ML/AI algorithms on your content, add the "Google-Extended" user-agent to your "robots.txt" file ASAP.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers
Good news! Search Central Live Zurich is back after a bit less than 4 years :)
Just a moment before, I was wondering if Google easier would index a page if the URL is open or closed...
url/category/page or url/category/page/
As I see it the closed url is more prepared to grow and the one without / is not... wrong or just my internal mindgame and error
So, would @google mind or pay any attention to the difference ? @johnmu @badams @simoncox
haha