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johnmu

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About johnmu

Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google Switzerland -- http://johnmu.com/

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    Comment #9193035

    And one more thing ... you have some paths that are generating more URLs on their own without showing different content, for example: http://www.languagespy.com/politics/uk/trends/…

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    Comment #9192406

    FWIW I think the main problem is that you're essentially creating an "infinite space," meaning there's an extremely high number of URLs that are findable through crawling your page…

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    Comment #9192253

    Having a page that goes nofollow/noindex and back is fine, when we recrawl it, we'll take the new state into account.

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    Comment #9191562

    Hi, I work with the Google crawling & indexing teams. Let me check with them to see what their recommendation would be. At first glance (based on the pages cached), it seems like w…

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    Comment #9191509

    Unblocking via robots.txt is fine and won't cause problems.

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    Comment #8936451

    It's important for us (I work at Google on web-search) to be transparent about these reports, and we use them to remove / block content that is malicious too (just like other sites…

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    Comment #8302445

    Handling URLs with multiple slashes in them is tricky, lots of websites silently fold them into one and return the same content, so this seems like something we should handle in th…

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    Comment #8302419

    If you want to send me specific queries (the more general, the better) and what went wrong in the search results for them, I'm more than happy to forward them to the team that work…

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    Comment #8301233

    (I work with the search team at Google) This was a bug on our side, and should be resolved now.

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    Comment #8298657

    This is just a bug, sorry.

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    Comment #6899722

    (I work at Google on webmaster issues) Your site has a manual spam action probably based on something a previous owner had on it ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110202220759/http:/…