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Dec 16, 2022 23 tweets 10 min read
Let's look at the robots.txt debacle again, shall we?
Fortunately I am fairly good at reading documentation, so I read it all (you're welcome):

🐙🧵 What their documentation says:
1. How they interprete the recently, silently updated REP.

2. That some of their crawlers may not obey any of the robots.txt rules you set or detailed in their documentation or the REP.

Source:
developers.google.com/search/docs/cr…

1|n Screenshot of Google's documentation about how their crawler
Dec 13, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
This is making me unreasonably angry.
It is not making any sense:
You have URLs via XML sitemaps, or in your DB, and you can easily ping them to see their status.
This can be really hurtful to small businesses who do not have the means to establish monitoring and caching. They would be better off not having had a robots.txt ever in the first place.
Mar 31, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
#accessibilitytesting tips for #seo #qa:
Set MS Windows to #greyscale to check for colour contrast by pressing Windows + Ctrl + C

(You might have to enable this shortcut first, see below.)
Browse your website and use all features. Consider invisible features as non-functional. Screenshot of Windows' Color Filters setting. You need to goColor blindness reference chart for game designers, highligh How much of a difference does it make?
Check out the examples of game designers here, illustrating how these colour options look like for different types of vision impairment: