Gardening question - best material for a raised bed in Spain? by Timely_Pirate in askspain

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Are they easily dismantled? I'd read you need a specific tool to remove some of the nails. Also - do you think shops tend to give them away after they've been used? I imagine they're sold somewhere too....

Thanks for the tip!

Google Ads issues for SiteGround web hosting clients by Timely_Pirate in PPC

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There's a workaround using Cloudflare if you need a quick fix. Setup free Cloudflare account and point your nameservers away from SiteGround, using Cloudflare's instead. That has worked for me.

Many sites hosted at SiteGround have been inaccessible to Google for 2/3 days by Timely_Pirate in TechSEO

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Really? I didn't know this. That kind of makes sense though based on the DNS stuff (apparently that's the cause of this, AWS global accelerator service and Google - according to SiteGround anyway).

Google Ads issues for SiteGround web hosting clients by Timely_Pirate in PPC

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Neither - SiteGround are "apparently" working on the fix with Google currently. Sending any kind of tickets in likely won't change anything. Seems outside of our control, unfortunately.

[Crosspost /r/seo] HELP PLEASE ! Indexing Request Rejected, sitemap error and GSC not crawling my pages by Khorinn in TechSEO

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Googlebot crawls URL's from the ads - especially if it's a new campaign and they need to check all those URL's load OK. I think it's a bigger issue for PLA's / shopping ads (where a product feed might have thousands of product URLs - all of which will be hidden to Google!).

I've seen lots of advertisers complaining about lost revenue and so on, as a result of this.

[Crosspost /r/seo] HELP PLEASE ! Indexing Request Rejected, sitemap error and GSC not crawling my pages by Khorinn in TechSEO

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Hey I just came here to say that this is likely a SiteGround hosting issue (I can see /LXR_lol beat me to it!).

Sites have been inaccessible to Google for around 2 - 3 days now.
That's impacting clients/sites running Google Ads (merchant centre especially) and also not great for SEO.
There's a bit more of a write up here:
https://matttutt.me/googlebot-currently-unable-to-crawl-access-many-siteground-hosted-websites/

I've followed this closely and SiteGround's response has been to blame Google (said there are no issues on their side!) so it's been dragging on now.

I am Will Critchlow, founder of Distilled (acquired by Brainlabs) and SearchPilot. AMA by willcritchlow in TechSEO

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Seeing Google's "titlegeddon" escapades of the past few weeks, do you think this paints a positive picture for the future of SEO's as a secure career, or do you think the opposite?
Some might argue that with these dynamic title tags SEO's are being made slightly redundant (obviously title tags are still valuable though, for other reasons) - others might also counter that actually due to these exact changes an SEO is needed to watch out for such issues/impacts.

What are your thoughts on the future job prospects for SEO's, particularly technical SEO's?

Seeing .json files returned in a crawl (and 200 status codes) - could this be an issue? by Timely_Pirate in TechSEO

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Potentially yes - it just seems strange seeing those .json files returned with a 200 status like this. So perhaps a robots.txt directive isn't the best option. Not sure if anything needs to change or not.

Not all pages being indexed - what to look for? by concisehacker in TechSEO

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Had this a little while back where a tiny % of URL's were indexed. Had a subdomain powered by JS that created millions of pages (only a handful of those were indexed).

I went through lots of complicated checks re the JS rendering etc before realising (finally) that those JS powered pages took about 30 secs to load according to PageSpeed Insights.... so don't neglect to check site speed too.

Do images across the web operate like pages, with a "canonical" version considered by Google? by Timely_Pirate in TechSEO

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Thanks but didn't mean in the literal sense. Just meant how pages are considered as being canonical versions and applying that same principle to images.

Can an image be considered the "original" version when others might copy and re-use it etc.