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Google Can Temporarily Protect Important URLs From Being Deindexed

By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) 0 views 0 comments
Google Can Temporarily Protect Important URLs From Being Deindexed
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Gary Illyes from Google said that when important URLs serve a 4xx status code, Google Search can "temporarily protect the URL from falling out of the index right away." Meaning, Google Search will still show the URL in Google Search, for a short while, just to make sure searchers can still find it.

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