All right, welcome everyone to today's Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangouts. My name is John Neuler. I'm a webmaster trends analyst here at Google in Switzerland. And part of what we do is these Office Hours Hangouts with webmasters and publishers like the ones here in the Hangout and the ones that submitted a bunch of questions already. So as always, if one of you who are kind of new to these Hangouts has any questions on their mind that they've been trying to get answered, feel free to jump on in, ask the first question. Otherwise, we can just get started. Hi. OK, we have one. OK, so we currently work on an Oracle APG system. We're new to it, so I don't know much about it, but basically obviously, it's an e-commerce system, so it uses a lot of query parameters. I've tried to block as much as I can with the Webmaster text. Our static pages uses query parameters as well. And what I'm finding is in Google Search Console, is it's actually being blocked. You're all parameters blocking the query parameters for the static pages as well. I can't delete that. I can only reset that. What would you advise I can do then? OK, so I'm not quite sure I understand the question correctly, but it sounds like you have URLs with a lot of query parameters. And some of these you're trying to block on purpose, and some of them you want to have crawled normally. Yes. So what I would do there for the most part, if you can, is let us crawl all of those versions. So don't block them in the robots text. And instead, use the rel canonical on the pages. Use no index on these pages. Use the URL parameter handling tool in Search Console to let us know which of these versions you want to have blocked and which of these versions you do want to have shown in Search. So with the URL parameter handling tool, it's sometimes a bit tricky because it's easy to break things there. So I would double-check that you kind of let us crawl those parameters that are actually relevant. OK, so I'll get exactly what you're saying. Just to give you an example, I'll place it in the check. So these pages are like a page that sweeps off, but I don't want that page blocked. OK, so I haven't blocked it in the robots text or anything. But if I look in my Search Console in URL parameters, it's actually blocking it there. It's excluding it there. So it's excluding page name. Yeah, so in the URL parameter handling tool. So what I noticed when I go to that URL is it redirects to a URL with a session ID. Yes. Which I am guessing is one of those things that you're trying to block. Yes. But I don't want this page blocked. Yeah, but if it has, so if it's redirecting to a session ID, then that's something where we would see that redirect. We would try to follow it. And if that redirect target is blocked by robots text, then we wouldn't be able to index that. So that's kind of a problem there. And I see the session ID is added with a semicolon, so not as a normal URL parameter, which makes it even harder for us to understand that this is actually not a part of the filename but a separate parameter. So ideally, things like session IDs you would use as normal URL parameters in the kind of behind the question mark of the URL so that you can use the URL parameter handling tool to clean that up. So as it is now, it's really in one of those states that it's really, really hard for us to crawl and index properly. OK, thank you so much. Sure. Hi. So I'm having a question. So we have a few near me pages. So those pages are basically detects the location from the server. So Google detects that location from Polo or something like that. And Google only indexes those pages only instead of, because that page is a single page for all the locations. So that page will serve the content instead of having some subfolder or something in front of that. So how can we solve this issue? Because those pages are also having breadcrumbs city-wise, like for Delhi, NCR, and Canada, Toronto. Those pages are having breadcrumbs as a city name. So either we remove the breadcrumbs to show the user that, because the users will be seeing that the Polo Alto CEA or something like that in the subfolder. So did you get my question? I didn't quite understand what you mean. So you have breadcrumbs with the city names? Yeah, I have breadcrumbs with city name. Like the pages are near me, like something near me, something near me. And the near me searches are having great search volume. So we have created the pages for the near me. So basically, those pages are having breadcrumbs. After the city name, if someone is searching that restaurant in some location in the city, so the person will be able to see the breadcrumbs at that location. But the page is a single URL. Page is having a single URL for all the locations. But the breadcrumbs are different. OK, so you have one single landing page for all of these different locations? And it automatically detects the location and shows the content rendered about it. I'm not sure if I understand it correctly. What I would recommend doing there is maybe starting a thread in the Help Forum with an example page. There's just to me that you can remove the breadcrumbs. There is no other solution. I think Grove only has just made this solution, I think. Yes. I don't know. I don't quite understand the exact setup that you have. OK, so I'm having one more question. So after the thread update, I can see the increasing number of impressions. But the number of clicks are the same. But the number of impressions are much higher now. Maybe you do the rich cards. Do each rich card count as a separate impression on the search result? So for the impressions, we count if one of the URLs from the site is shown in one of the search results pages. So that's something where we don't count differently, depending on where on the page the user is scrolling. If it's shown on the search results page, then that's counted as an impression. So those pages are like AMP-pages rich cards. So basically, both are separate URLs, I guess. Yeah, exactly. So can you tell me a little more about this thread update? Is this official update or something? This is just one of those updates that we make all the time. So there's nothing really specific that we would have to communicate about that. So why are you not disclosing this at this time? We tend not to disclose most of the updates. We make them like hundreds a year. So for the most part, it doesn't make sense to say, oh, we made a change today. We made a change yesterday. We made a change today. We made two changes yesterday. That's not something that, from our point of view, really makes sense. So a few popular websites are showing content on the desktop version of that search page. And in the mobile PWA pages, they are not showing any content for adding keywords to that page. So they are adding some content to the desktop pages, like some content for Wikipedia and something. But in the PWA pages, they are not having any content. So can we, is this a good approach that we add content on desktop pages, but we don't put that content in PWA pages? That sounds like a bad idea. So especially if you're copying content from Wikipedia that doesn't provide any value. No, if content is unique, let's say content is unique. But the version is different, like a web page, a desktop page. We are having some content, 200, 300 words, unique content describing the city. And in the PWA page, we won't show any content because it will potentially having a bad user experience. I think that's a bad idea. So if you have something that's useful on your desktop page, then it's useful on the mobile page. A lot of people are mobile only now when they use the internet. And if you suggest that something is available on your web page by showing it in search, and it's not available when they come with a mobile device, then that's a really bad user experience. So that's really something I'd avoid doing. And is this a good approach to use emojis in the title that's to improve the CTR? I don't think that really boosts the CTR. I mean, some people do that, but I don't think it really helps that much. OK, thanks. Sure. All right, let me run through some of the questions that were submitted. And then we can open things up for more general questions from you all as well. OK, so someone created an infographic with a big question in it. In general, I'd recommend trying to kind of simplify things and just writing the question into the text. That makes it a lot easier for us to kind of go through and understand what is actually happening here. In this case, the question is about a website where basically a 15-year-old website or domain was bought and they're trying to put content on it. And they realized afterwards that actually this website was used for adult content in the past. And now they're kind of wondering, what's up? What do we do with all those crazy links that are pointing at my website? So from our point of view, if you want to clean things up with a discipline file, that's totally up to you. That's something that you can do. In general, if you put new content on a website, then you'll treat it as a new website. So we'll try to handle that correctly on our side. If you're seeing that your website is being filtered by Safe Search incorrectly, in this case, perhaps, maybe your new website has nothing to do with any adult content, and it's still being filtered by Safe Search, then that's something where there is a form in the help center that you can submit to let us know that you think this might be a problem. And then someone on the Safe Search side will take a look at that and say, oh, it looks like our Safe Search algorithms just haven't caught up with this. Maybe we can just fix this for this website. So that's kind of the options that are available there. In general, if you're buying a used domain name, I would recommend looking into the history of that domain name ahead of time, because that can save you a lot of hassles down the road. So that's kind of one thing to keep in mind, just like when you buy, I don't know, or rent a place for your business in the city, you probably want to take a look at that place and kind of think about the history of that area, the general area where you're placing your business and think about that really makes sense for you there. And sometimes it does make sense. Sometimes you have a really neat opportunity to pick up a really cool domain name and you kind of are willing to take into account that it might take a bit of time and a bit of extra work to actually get things up to speed, but then you have this really cool domain name that you're kind of proud of actually using. All right, let's see. On our site, we offer different types of services for online booking. One of the services is a third party affiliate program. Could this be a problem for our website? In general, affiliate programs are perfectly fine. It's not something that you need to hide. It's not something that will automatically make your website look lower quality. We do, however, expect that you provide something of value in addition to just that affiliate link. So instead of just copying, pasting the same content as all of the other affiliates are using, really think about what you can do on your website to make your website unique and compelling so that Google wants to recommend your website instead of all of these other ones. So don't just be kind of as good as the others, but really make sure that you're providing something extra, something unique that kind of stands out from your side. So that's kind of the direction I'd head there. Wander how does Google decide whether to announce a ranking boost or change? For example, the mobile interstitial, the HTTPS, mobile first, et cetera. So this is something that, from our point of view, is sometimes a bit tricky. But sometimes it's kind of obvious as well in the sense that if there are things that we can clearly tell webmasters what they can do to improve things on their side, then we'll try to do that. So for example, when it came to the mobile friendly ranking change, which was, I think, like two years ago, that's something where we recognize that this was a big problem, that a lot of sites were not mobile friendly. And we wanted to make a change in the search results in that regard. And to make sure that sites have a chance to kind of understand what is happening and to kind of make that right decision as well, we wanted to kind of spread that word and say, hey, we're doing this. You can do this on your side to kind of make sure that you're in line with this. And in general, the recommendations we have are not just for search. There's something that are relevant and valuable for websites across the board. So the mobile friendly change is something where, of course, we can take that into account in the search. But if half of your users are coming from mobile devices already, then that's something you want to take into account as well and kind of handle on your side too. When a website is penalized by Google, does it get demoted, the indexed, or both? So both, I think, wouldn't really make sense, because if it's removed from the index, then it doesn't matter if it's demoted as well, because it's not shown in the search results. In general, we do try to take the appropriate action when it comes to manual actions. I believe there is a website that we put up How Search Works a while ago that goes into a little bit like the type of manual actions that we take and the type of situations that we run across. So we don't remove websites just because we think there's something small that's wrong with them. In our ideal situation, what we try to do is make it so that whatever a website is trying to kind of sneakily do just doesn't have any effect. So one really easy example is keyword stuffing. That's something where we see a lot of websites trying to do that, or at least over the years have been doing that traditionally, where they think, oh, if I put this keyword on my page, so many percentage of the words, then Google will see my page as being more relevant for this keyword. And the web spam team could go in there and say, oh, you're trying to do keyword stuffing. We'll remove you from search completely. But on the other hand, we could go in there and say, oh, you're trying to do keyword stuffing. Therefore, we'll just make sure that your site ranks normally, and we can ignore that keyword stuffing that you're doing there. And that's kind of the steps that we're taking there, where we're trying to recognize the issues that are being done on a website and trying to find ways that we can kind of ignore that. Because we know a lot of websites are not explicitly trying to game Google's system and trying to be really sneaky and do crazy black hat stuff. They're essentially just following bad advice that they got somewhere. So we want to rank a website based on the good things on it, rather than just kind of remove it for any small thing that they do wrong on the website. Our website suffered a penalty yesterday. All the keywords dropped from Google Search. We received yet another DMCA removal request the same day. We handled these complaints on the same day. What action could we do? So in general, this is probably not directly related. So there are some things that we do for in situations where we see that a website gets a lot of DMCA complaints and has a lot of problems with content that is taken from various other sources. But in general, this is something that's more of a long-term situation, where when we see that this is happening over and over again, then we might take action on that. Or rather, our algorithms might take that into account. So if you're seeing one complaint coming in and the next day you're seeing a change in search, then that's probably not related. That's probably something completely disconnected where maybe your algorithms are just seeing your site differently in a slightly different way. And it's not related to this individual DMCA complaint. With regards to DMCA complaints, these are legal issues. And this is not something that we'd be able to handle for you in the forums or even if you emailed us directly. This is really something that's kind of handled on a legal level because it's a legal kind of tool that's used by lawyers in general. I'm trying to remove some web pages from my website. I've foretened all of the pages. It was over a month ago. And I used the URL removal tool as well. Now they're kind of removed from the search results. But I want to remove them from the index as well because I think they're causing a thin content issue. What can I do to remove these pages faster? So in general, this is not something where kind of forcing a removal from the index will probably change things significantly. So if you're looking at a bigger website, I don't know if this is the case. But especially for bigger websites, if there is a handful of thin content pages that you're trying to remove, then that's not going to sway Google's view of the website overall. So that's something where obviously it can make sense to remove pages that you think are kind of useless to your website. But that's kind of independent of the bigger view of your website overall. So from my point of view, I would leave it like this in that the URLs are already removed from the search results. You're returning 4.10 for these pages. So they'll drop out of the index over time anyway. That's something that will kind of clean itself up there overall. But I would kind of take a step back and look at your website overall instead, especially if you're thinking that maybe there is a quality issue with the website and try to see what you can do to significantly improve the quality of your website overall, past just removing a couple hundred thin content pages. If you use robots.txt to block a subdomain, do any of the links to the subdomain have any ranking value for the main domain? Or are they ignored? So in general, any links that go to a URL that's blocked by robots.txt, they end up on that URL. And it might be that we try to index that URL without the content in the search results. So none of those links kind of get forwarded because we don't know what happens on that URL. On other hand, if you let us crawl that URL and you have a rel canonical to one of your other pages that you think is the same content, then that's something we can forward those signals to that URL. Or if there's a redirect to a cleaner version of that URL, then that's something that we can do. But if you block it by robots.txt, then that blocked URL collects the page rank, collects those signals, and it doesn't forward anything. When I make a change to my website, it usually rises a few places, but then it always falls back down. It happens so often that it leads me to think that some part of Google's algorithm hates me. What can I do?  Google's algorithms are generally trying to be pretty objective when it comes to a website. And they're not specifically tuned for kind of like messing with individual websites. So that kind of said, that's something where I suspect what our algorithms are doing is they're recognizing that you're making changes on your website. And they're assuming you're making great changes and doing great things there. Maybe they're kind of expecting that of you already. But over time, they're recognizing that maybe it wasn't as great as they thought initially. So maybe there are things that you can do to kind of significantly move your website up another notch rather than just incrementally adding a few things or tweaking things on your website. I think that's a really hard situation because obviously it would be easier to just open the text editor and tweak a couple of meta tags and or change some lines of text on the page. But sometimes it's really worthwhile to take a step back and think about what you can do to significantly increase the quality overall. And that's something that will take a bit of time to actually be reflected in search as well. So that's not something where you publish a new version of the website. And the next day, everything ranks 10 places higher. That's really going to take a bit of time for everything to kind of settle down and be recognized as being something significantly better. Are ID products OK in URLs besides the keywords? What's the max URL length or the ideal one? So I think ID product kind of refers to the IDs and query parameters in the URL. And from our point of view, that's perfectly fine. That's a fantastic practice. Using parameters in a URL is something that works really well for search engines, actually. Because what happens there is that we can try to understand those parameters and handle them appropriately when it comes to crawling and indexing. Whereas if you put everything into kind of the path and the file name of a URL, then that can make it really hard for us to kind of crawl and index those properly. So kind of like the case I mentioned, or we talked about way in the beginning, where a session ID was placed essentially into the file name. When it's in the file name like that, we essentially can't take that session ID out and crawl the URL without that session ID. So using query parameters in a way that really makes it a lot easier to kind of pick that up. And with regards to URL length, there is no optimal URL length. So I believe we support URLs up to like 3,000 characters. And that's a pretty crazy long URL. So that's not something that I'd recommend. If you have a second domain, would you redirect to your main site? Does there ever become a point where you should remove the redirects as PR values of those pages will diminish over time? And therefore, the old pages will lose value. You don't want to associate low quality with your main website. So from my point of view, from a search side, there is no reason to remove that redirect. I think that's perfectly fine to keep if you can do that. Sometimes there are practical reasons where you say, oh, I can't keep redirecting. My server people are complaining about this redirect being in place for like 10 years now. Then for practical reasons, you might say, OK, after a couple of years, I'll take this redirect out because nobody even visits this redirecting URL anymore. Therefore, it doesn't make sense to keep that redirect. But from a search point of view, you can keep that forever if you want to. I assisted a few publisher sites in HEPAS migrations, but there seem to be some ranking issues. I'm not sure if it's down to algorithm updates, negative SEO, or the migration itself. I'd like to ask some questions. I don't know if you're here in the Hangout. I'm here. All right. Go for it. Yeah, John. Yeah, John, thanks for having me here. Well, firstly, my question is about top story section of Google search. And there was a lot of change there over the last couple of months. So the top story section is still algorithmic, as you've confirmed, and not just limited to better publisher sites. So many websites that have previously appeared in the news are having issues appearing for top stories now. I understand that there are filters to the inclusion to improve the quality of search. I've seen many of the other websites reported to have been suffering from the same problem. Upon examining those, I was able to spot major drawbacks. And that could potentially affect the search engine visibility.  And you're not going to be there when, obviously, over 50% of the searches that you get if they're from mobile devices, obviously. But also, I must say that there was some worth very informative content and that has everything. There are few particular sites that I'm finding it really difficult to see any issues at all. Furthermore, there are additional measures, apart from just being, let's say, mobile friendly and fully secure. There's some real thought put into mobile design, as well as the desktop design, being fully responsive. The content definitely doesn't seem to be an issue. Obviously, I can't say how quality it is from Algos point of view. No SEO at all. So it's natural SEO. And that's why reputable sources, worldwide standards, they've always linked to the source, are being in contact with other webmasters and SEOs. And they've all agreed that there was a problem. None of them were even able to name the issue to say, this penalty, it could be this or that. They weren't even able to name the issue. But they've all agreed that there was an issue. So I think in the last few months, at the summer times, we've spotted about over 300,000 links coming from just nowhere. And they were using an intermediate link to, let's say, 10 pages. So about 4,300, 4,000 links to 10 pages on this website. Could this really affect the website? Because the loss of visibility was about 90%. So specifically with regards to the top story section, from our point of view is a organic search feature. So it's not something that's tied to Google News. It's not something where we'd say you have to implement a specific markup on your pages to kind of be shown there. That's something that's kind of algorithmic ranking. So sometimes that can mean that sites are shown there. Sometimes it can mean that some of the sites are not shown there. I'm happy to kind of look at specific examples and pass those on to the team. I don't know if I'd have any specific feedback where I'd be able to say, oh, the site is not shown in the top story sections because of this or because of this. But these examples are sometimes useful for the team to kind of fine tune their algorithms to make sure that they're picking up the right signals and that they're not dropping things that could potentially be really useful to users. So if you want to send me some queries and screenshots and sample URLs that you think should be in there, then I'm happy to forward that on to the team. That would be great because it has been months now and we've checked pretty much everything and can't just find any issue. It's not just SEO related, but I just can't find any issues. And we keep on concentrating on things that just doesn't make sense and just little issues. And that's not going to make any difference, but I'll send it over. Yeah, so I don't think the link side has anything to do with that. I suspect that's just the way our algorithms are looking at the site overall. But I'm really happy to forward these on. I've heard from a handful of people with regards to top stories changes. So if there is something more specific that you can give me, then I'd love to pass that on to just make sure that the team is aware of these issues and has some examples to look at with regards to what we could be doing differently. That would be great. But the second question, this is going to be a quick one. Apart from, actually, this is Google Search Flash, I will say, Google News. But apart from removing inline CSS within the page, is there anything that we can do to help the bot actually fully have a full and healthy article crawling? Because otherwise, sometimes it just takes half of the article and it says, OK, finish crawling. This is it. So when we remove the inline CSS, we've realized that most of the time it helps with crawling the full article. Is there anything else that we can do, maybe, apart from doing that and cleaning the code around to help with, you know? Yeah. So usually, this is more of an issue with regards to Google News, where we do try to extract the body of the article and we'll flag things like article too long or article too short. So if you're seeing that for individual pages, I'd recommend going through the News Help Center, where there's a contact form that you can use to contact the News Team. In general, as far as I know, the News Team tries to extract that from the template of the page. So the cleaner you can keep your template, the easier it will be for us to kind of extract that. Whereas if it looks like there's a comment section in between or there's suddenly this big block of, I don't know, an image or an active element in between, then that might make it hard for us to extract the actual contextual content around it. But that's something where I'd also take those specific examples and ping the Google News publisher team directly, so that they can take a look at that. OK, thanks so much. All right. Let me run through some more of the questions here. I'll open things up a bit for everyone else again. How would you define thing content? For example, are we talking about thing content when looking at a page, which only function is to link to other sites similar to a sitemap HTML page on a web page? Does Google see that as a doorway page? So in general, I don't know. It's hard to define thing content on a fly like that. But usually I look at this as something where there's not a lot of value being provided on the page with regards to if I were to stumble across this page in the search results and I clicked on it and it takes a bit to load, and then it comes up like that. I'm like, ah, why did I end up here? There's nothing that really helps me here. Then that would be kind of like thing content from my point of view. And sometimes that's a lot of textual content on a page, but it's not a lot of unique value that you're adding there. So just linking to another site might be an example of that, having a lot of cruft on a page, and then just like this one small section that's actually useful, that might be an example. I believe in the Help Center we have more of an official definition there, though. Newly approved site in Google News. How long does it take to get indexed? So I don't know specifically with regards to Google News if they have anything special there, but in general, you need to have content on your website before you're approved for Google News. So that's something where your site should already be indexed in normal web search before it's actually picked up by Google News. In general, for new websites to show up in Google web search, that's often a matter of a couple of days I found recently. So it's actually fairly fast. If you submit a sitemap file with a link to URLs, then we can generally pick that up fairly quickly. How should I list my software to this enhanced search results? So the software, I looked at this, I think, for one of the previous hangouts as well. There is a specific markup that you can use for software applications, but I believe at the moment it's still kind of limited to specific trial partners. So that's something where usually that's clearly specified in the Help Center pages or in the developers at Google.com site. So I double-checked there. And often, especially for the newer markup types, there's also a contact form that you can submit your site there so that someone from the team can double-check to see if it makes sense to show your site as well as one of these kind of initial people to try things out. What's the role of an age of a domain in ranking? Kindly reply in detail, because people say that no site younger than 365 days can achieve first rank. A new domain can rank number one within a couple of days. It's not something that we have any kind of artificial filter that says, oh, this is a new domain, and therefore it can't show up in the search results. You can make a new website. It can be extremely relevant for some queries, and we'll try to rank that appropriately when it comes to those queries. And that could be ranking number one. So that's not a matter of, like, you need an old domain in order to rank. You need to have really good content. You need to have a fantastic website. You need to have something unique and compelling that people are trying to find. So instead of focusing on the age of a domain name, focus on your website more, and try to figure out what you can provide that's unique and compelling that isn't available on any of the other websites where you know that people are trying to find that. Hello, John. Yes. Is there any limitation about title tag length? Because sometimes some blog posts, title is too long. So when we use that title in the title tag, it's usually more than 70 characters. So will that affect SEO if it is more than 70 characters? The title tag? No. That's perfectly fine. So usually what happens in a case like that is that we won't show the full title in the search results. We'll try to figure out which parts are relevant based on the user's query. But that's totally up to you. And I have another question. When Google bought Crawler website, does it crawl the whole website at a time? Or does it crawl some of the web page at a time? It's always on a per page basis. So some pages will be crawled more often. Some pages maybe only every couple of weeks or every couple of months. Because we have a blog website and we post on the blog on regular basis. But last few weeks, we noted that Google is crawling the home page category page. But the post we have posted on last two weeks, those are not indexed by Google. So that is why I'm asking this question. Is it some issue on the website or is it normal? That can be completely normal. Yeah. OK, thanks, Dr. Schreiber. John, can I ask a question? Sure. So when I find something at moving these blogs, they can be quite a e-commerce site. And they've also got a specific blog on the community that's in the domain. So I want to tighten it up or loosen it up by basically moving the blog to the e-commerce domain. They've got really good content. They have done really well for the blog. Do you think it's even necessary then to move it onto the e-commerce domain? Or should they just leave it where it is? So I think the question is, you have a blog and it's on a separate domain and you're considering combining it with your e-commerce site. Yes. Yeah. So essentially that's up to you. From my point of view, that can work either way. On the one hand, it can kind of keep things separate in the sense that your blog will rank separately from your e-commerce site. On the other hand, it can also make sense to combine things where if your blog is really about your e-commerce site, then maybe it makes sense to put those on the same domain. But I don't think you'd see any significant gains or losses by going one way or the other. So that's something where I would look at it more from a practical point of view, from a marketing point of view, rather than from pure SEO. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would rather not add the fact. All right.  So it's kind of hard to pick and choose. We've been running the only site to fact check celebrity reporting for the past eight years. But around a week ago, we began to suffer a significant drop in traffic and rank. We can't figure out why. We're wondering how important page load time is for organic performance. Also, we suspect some large outlets that don't like being called out for inaccurate reporting are linking to us with low quality sites. Is there a way to disavow all of those unwanted links? So I believe the site also posted in the forum something similar that I saw there. So maybe just to cover these two specific items there with regards to page load time. From our point of view, we try to differentiate between sites that are significantly slow and sites that are kind of within the normal range. So when we're looking at things that are really, really slow, it's more a matter of it. It takes several minutes to actually load these pages. And then that's something where algorithms might say, OK, this is really, really slow. We might need to take action on it with regards to how we show it in the search results. But if you're kind of within the reasonable range and you're looking at, I don't know, a couple of seconds or maybe even like a half a minute or something like that, then tweaking that isn't going to have a direct effect on your search results ranking. There might be indirect effects in that users stay on your site longer and they find more content that they like and they recommend that to other people. Those kind of indirect effects will always be there. And there are lots of studies out there that are showing that faster websites tend to perform a lot better with regards to users in general in that conversions will be better, people will view more pages on a website, all of that. Can I follow that up? Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. So, I mean, we're still trying to figure out why this is happening. We get linked by very reputable places, Huffington Post and a half dozen other places linked to us today. We're really the only people who do what we do. But something happened last week and we know that people have deliberately hit us with thousands of things that we're constantly putting in disavows. And someone brought it up earlier also, the DMCA, last week someone hit us with 50 of them. None of them were true. I said to them, you should retract it. They said, we're a third party, we can't. So I then had to put in 50 or 51 counterclaims and they said they obviously wouldn't oppose it. So I'm wondering, you know, we're still trying to figure out what this is that happened that suddenly changed our ranking. So with regard to links, that's something that I looked at there as well. And that's not something that would be affecting your website. So the links wouldn't be a problem there. I don't believe from a DMCA point of view that that would be an issue there as well. At least it wasn't when I double checked that last week. The main things that I see when I see a site kind of dropping in rankings like that or seeing a change in search results is usually just from an overall quality point of view from a website. So kind of essentially like the whole picture when our algorithms look at the website, how can we judge the quality of this website. And that's something that's sometimes really tricky to kind of figure out and to work on ways to improve that across the board. I'm sorry, I didn't want to have a little child hopefully who's not crying in the background. I know you can't offer very specifics, but what are among some of the more general ways that we can improve so that we can get back to where we were? I speak obviously as the editor and the owner but also because we're very committed to this mission of fact-checking. We're the only ones who do this. It is sort of annoying separate from what I do to see the inaccurate stories on top and then obviously it then becomes especially an entertainment and echo chamber where everyone links to the inaccurate story and in a way that gives it better page rank, the most inaccurate story. Yeah, I think that's sometimes really tricky. So one thing that I tend to send people a lot of the link in the chat is an older blog post with regards to the Panda algorithm that we made a while back that has a bunch of questions that you could look at together with maybe people who aren't directly associated with your website. So that's what I would kind of start at and try to take people who are really not associated with your website who can look at it objectively and present them your website with a specific task and present them maybe some others and with similar tasks and go through those questions and see where do they tend to get stuck and think about what you could do on your side to try to address those issues when they come up. And some of these are obviously really hard where if you've worked on your website for years and years and it's like, oh, it's your baby and how dare someone criticize my layout or my ad placement or whatever, but it's really useful to kind of get this objective feedback and to think about what you could do across the board to kind of shift things up a slight level. John, may I ask a question regarding something that you said before on updated content? Sure. Well, in the previous Hangout, I asked you about pinging Google by submitting a request to Hubbub. And well, I have done some experiences with that and at least for content that is updated, I can see there is some bot, not Googlebot, like something like NewsFatcher or something like that, that comes to request the updated page and the RSS feed or sitemap, but then the Googlebot does not always come to pick a page. It usually comes when it is a new page but not an updated page. And sometimes what happens is that I publish a new page, but for some reason I forgot to add something. I add that text like an half an hour later and ping again and Googlebot does not come. Is there a timeout for when I am able to send a new ping for updated content? Is there a rule that you can somehow hint us? I don't know if you can tell us everything you know, but what can you tell us? I am not aware of anything explicit with regards to kind of updating URLs. So I would love to take a look at some of these examples if you have something because that seems like something that for some sites might be more relevant and it might be interesting to see what our systems are actually doing behind the scenes there. So usually what I tell people is to update the last modification date in the sitemap file and to ping us that again. And usually we'll be able to take that into account. If you're talking about publishing something and then a couple of minutes later updating that, then I don't know if our systems will say, oh, I'll wait a day and see if the change date kind of sticks and then re-crawl it. Or if they would go ahead and re-crawl it a couple of minutes later as well. So that's kind of an interesting setup. Yeah, well, one thing that usually works because that doesn't work well for update content is just go on Search Console, fetch as Google and request to submit to index. Then Googlebot always comes up there, but it's a bit bureaucratic. I already have some code to automate that from my publishing system. So I wonder if it would be possible, if not possible just drop a suggestion which would be like an API call in Search Console API so we can somehow ping Google and tell, oh, really forgot to update this. It's not like we are trying to spam Google. And since the API call is authenticated, I think Google recognizes it's not just an ordinary spammer. Yeah, we are looking at things like that. So I think the difference that you highlighted there is really the tricky part on our side in that especially the fetch and submit part of Search Console is one of the features that is almost the most abused of Search Console. Well, people will send all kinds of bots there to try to keep submitting things. From our point of view, that means it must work. It must be a useful feature. But on the other hand, it makes it really hard for us to say, oh, we will invest a lot more time to make this even easier to abuse by providing an API. But I know you're not the only one who's asking for something like that. So maybe there are ways that we can provide an API and still be able to filter out kind of the spammy abuse side in that regard. OK, thanks. Hello, John. Yes. Can I ask a question? Sure. Hi. Actually, I have a website having three versions, the desktop, mobile, and the AMP. What I want, actually, I want to redirect the desktop version to AMP. For example, if a user opens my website, URL from mobile devices, and actually I want you will not come to my mobile site and should redirect it to AMP version. So is it OK to do this? Sure. Sure. You can do that. You can make your AMP page the mobile page for your desktop site. That's totally possible. I know that it's a rare setup where you have a desktop page and an AMP page as a mobile version. Some people have only an AMP page, and they say everything that I do works on AMP, and my AMP page is responsive. I can use that on desktop too. For example, the AMP project.org site is completely on AMP. There is no desktop version anymore. So that's something that's possible. It depends, I think, a bit on your website and on the functionality that you need to provide on your website. So if you have a lot of dynamic elements, if you have a login, if you have kind of database lookups that you can't really cache, then those are things that probably don't work that well on AMP at the moment. But if your website is mostly static content, if it's a blog, if it's a set of documentation pages, informational pages, then that might work really well as an AMP page. And you just only publish an AMP version. You don't even have to worry about the desktop site anymore because an AMP page is essentially a normal web page too. Hello. Yes. Yeah, one more thing. Actually, I want to know, do I need to mention mobile alternate tag on that AP version or that simplicity redirection is fine? If you want to use the AMP page as your mobile version, then you would need to treat that in the same way that you would use separate mobile URLs. So in the documentation, we recommend that you have the rel alternate mobile link to the mobile page and from the mobile version, the canonical back to the desktop page. The canonical to the desktop page is something you have on the AMP page anyway. So essentially, those connections are kind of what we're looking for there. And the redirect helps us as well, of course. All right. Thank you. And one more question. Actually, previously, I asked a question regarding, actually, we are from India, and we are working as a new website. And actually, we want to feature in live blog. And we are still running a live blog, but we are not able to coming on that section. So how can I, I mean, come on that feature? You'd have to use the contact form in the Help Center there. So I don't know if they're picking new sites to kind of try this out with at the moment. Sometimes what happens with new features that they launched, specifically around kind of the rich cards, the more dynamic content, is they will work together with a bunch of people in the beginning to kind of set this up and to see then how that kind of pans out. And we're trying to see how users are responding to this content in search, how publishers are able to implement this content, kind of this markup, that functionality. And depending on that, they will take the next step and say, OK, we will broaden this to a bigger set of testers or maybe we'll just make it public for the whole world to actually use. So that's something where it kind of depends. But if you have the markup on your pages and you've submitted in with that form, then you're kind of lined up for those next steps. All right. So do I need to submit that particular URL on the forum only so that you can consider? No. In the developer side, there's usually a contact form. So let me. No, there is no option to submit. It's a pilot feature right now. OK. Yeah. Then in that case, you need to wait. I'm sorry. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Congrats. Yeah. So sometimes it's really a matter of the team actually have a chance to analyze all of the information they've collected so far and then based on that to make a decision on what the next steps would be. All right. More questions from any of you. I have a bit more time here. So we can kind of drag things out a little bit longer. If there are questions, comments from any of you, happy to take a look. With regards to session ideas, you really got me concerned now. Yeah. I mean, I'm not the best at that. You know, I'm not a developer. So I need to be able to advise these developers on what they should be doing, what is best practice. Is there anything that you can give me some tips on or advice on? So specifically with regards to that URL that you sent me there, when I click on it, I get redirected to this weird session ID URL. And the session ID is separated with a semicolon from the main file name. And you have URL parameters afterwards with the question mark. So that makes it really hard for us to actually figure out what to do there because there's a different URL every time that we try to crawl that page, which means we have a really hard time understanding how we should actually index this page. So that's something where I would recommend moving the session ID outside of the kind of the file name to somewhere behind the question mark so that at least we can understand and remove that session ID when we crawl and index those pages. So it looks like when I double check this page, we are indexing something there. But because we're seeing different redirects every time, it's really hard for us to say this is the content that we should be indexing and this is how we should be indexing it here. That makes a lot of sense because I've been struggling with this issue for almost a year now to get as much page index as possible. And even just admitting my site map, after submitting it for the course here, I've only got 3,000 pages, so I've only got 95 index. So that makes a lot of sense what you're saying. Yeah. That's something that might be playing a role there. I'm pretty sure the whole session ID setup that you have there makes it very, very hard for us. So I know the team tries to work around kind of these untraditional session ID setups, but it's something that makes it a lot harder than it needs to be. And it makes it a lot harder to track things as well on your end because potentially the session ID might be a part of the URL that's actually indexed. And then that URL changes every time we crawl. So that's something I'd recommend trying to clean up. John. In the meantime, would you suggest that I rather not block him in the session IDs and robots.txt, just leave it as is while they fix it? Yeah. I would not block them in robots.txt. OK. Thank you so much. Is that something that can be controlled in URL parameters as well in Webmaster Tools, or are there some things that override those preferences? You can use the URL parameters there, but in this case, the session ID is outside of the URL parameter. It's actually technically a part of the file name. So if you click on the link, it adds at least for me. It adds the session ID with a semicolon from the file name. And then behind that, there's the question mark with the traditional query parameters. And the traditional query parameters are what you can control in Search Console. And what's kind of before that is seen from our side as more like a part of the file name. Take it all may then. No problem. All right. Let me see if I can grab another question from those that were submitted. How does Google rank news websites like the BBC, because they have links from spammy websites all the time? Yeah, a lot of websites have links from spammy websites. And we still try to rank them properly. We're pretty good at dealing with spammy links and ignoring most of them. So this is something that if you look at a lot of the more common and popular websites, that's almost traditional that spammers link to those websites, because we'll see people set up spammy websites and they have a bunch of spammy content on there. And then they link to the BBC and CNN and Google and Wikipedia and they think, oh, search engines will think that my website is high quality because I link to these other high quality websites. But actually search engines have evolved quite a bit over the past decade or so. And they've kind of recognized this tactic and they're good at ignoring that. Let's see. What else do we have there? It's kind of unique. Yeah, I don't know. Anything else from your side that's on your mind that we need to talk about before the weekend? Otherwise, we can take a break here too. That works from my side as well. All right. Then let's take a break here. Thank you all for joining. Thanks for all of the interesting discussions and all of the questions that were submitted. As always, I'll be setting up the next batch of Hangouts probably later today or early next week. They should be ready, I think, in two weeks again. And hopefully I'll see some of you all then again. In the meantime, if there are things on your mind, feel free to tweet us on Twitter or to post something in the Webmaster Help Forum where there are a lot of really smart people that are hanging out as well that can escalate things to us as well when things get kind of weird and complicated. So until then, thanks again and I wish you all a great weekend. Bye, everyone. Bye. Thank you. Bye-bye.


Out of these four teams who is going to win a Super Bowl first? Bengals, Ravens, Bills or Cowboys. Now if I had to bet on this, I am going to say that the Bills win a Super Bowl before any of these teams. No other team deserves it more than the Buffalo Bills and their fans. Bills, Super Bowl coming soon. Let me know what you guys think.


All right, guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're going to check out plant-based princess with her video, what I eat for gut health. Good luck eating plant-based for gut health. Let's have a look. Yeah, that will heal your gut. Now, either she really doesn't know what she's doing or she's the queen of sarcasm. Hola, cómo estás? I'm literally standing like a child in my bed. I'm not standing. I'm sitting on my knees. That's my, hola, cómo estás? Welcome back to my channel. If you guys are new here, my name is Rhee, and I create conscious lifestyle content. So don't create conscious lifestyle content, whatever that is. Here lately, I've been like really busy and just really unprepared. And this has had like a really huge effect on the foods that I eat, which has been a lot more processed foods than I typically prefer. So plant-based is always processed foods because you need to process those plants in order to eat them in the first place. Try eating raw grains. It is impossible. Today's video is going to be a What I Eat in a Day with an Ephesus on Gut Hill, which is actually perfect because today's video is sponsored by Umbrella. So I mentioned it before. Coincidence. I know a lot of you guys are new here, but I've struggled with digesting issues pretty much all of my life for as long as I can remember. Wow. So as long as you can remember, then try remembering what you've been eating all your life. If you look into the standard American diet, you will see that it is already plant-based. Americans eat on average a diet that consists of 80% plants. You might not realize that. Wow, we're eating hamburgers.  With that, you have a bunch of fries, yet again, plants, and soda, which is, again, plants, sugarcane in some instances. Do you understand that the American diet is predominantly plant-based, which then leads to gut issues? Try a carnivore diet. Try a high-need diet. Try a diet that consists predominantly of animal foods and see how your gut health will improve. In over the years, I've kind of just had to really listen to my body and just figure it out. I'm right left. Just figure it out, girl. You're not figuring out anything. You're not listening to your body if you are a vegan. Veganism is the religious denial of the human body, of the human nature that has been created by God. If you are a vegan, you are dogmatic by definition. You believe that the human is supposed to eat plants, even though you have gut issues. Do you understand that you've been brainwashed? That takes all the gassing out, making it really, really easy to measure your gut health. Buy out an at-home test that can measure your bacteria levels by testing your poop. Sure, that will do the job.  Man, when I was a vegan for four years straight, I was going to those doctors, SIBO tests and what not. Those examinations are supremely expensive. You pay many thousand euros to really diagnose what is wrong with you. Of course, you would be better off to simply eat a steak and fix those issues yourself. But what I'm saying here is that ombre test won't do anything. It's like digestion issues, mental health concerns, maintaining a healthy weight, skin concerns. The answer can literally be found in your gut. Why do you have bad skin then? It contains trillions of bacteria, both good and bad. When your gut doesn't have enough good bacteria, it gives the bad bacteria. What is good bacteria? What is bad bacteria? Explain. An opportunity to flourish. And when this happens, you may start to see some of the symptoms that I previously mentioned.  What may work for me, may or may not work for you. And what works for you may or may not work for me. Yeah, that might be true, but does it work for you at all? Let's just, it's expected. We're all different human beings and we all have different needs. If you found yourself struggling here lately with any of the symptoms. Yeah, we all have different needs, kinda, but we all have the same nature which has been got created. You understand this? We are still humans after all. Yes, we have different interests, but it doesn't change anything about our physiology. And therefore you won't be able to trick your biology by simply eating plants. It is impossible.  Visit triumfer.com slash plant-based-princess to receive $30 off of your test. Thank you again to- Blue. Man, anybody that has ever eaten any blueberries in higher quantities, a.k.a. all the vegans out there, you know that you cannot digest them. This goes through you, especially in a smoothie form. The only thing that you will absorb in that smoothie is sugar. This is being mistaken then as feeling healthy because you get a sugar rush. That's it. From the food. Cold milk. Can't forget that. It's not milk. Moose? Yeah, super healthy for you. Again, I see she knows Dr. Sebi as most black Americans. Why would you need barley, grass, juice, powder? It is nothing but oxalate powder. You want kidney stones? You need them. Protein powder because plants don't give you protein. But plants have protein, too. They eff protein. You don't absorb it. Man, I can't believe this. 2022, still. It's bananas, boys. Blueberries, sugar. Milk, tomatoes, bananas, juice. Does this look like anything that a human being should be consuming? Protein powder, juice, blueberries, and bananas. Great. Yuck. Right, and now let's not forget you're eating for God's help.  How is this gut healing? You don't have any explanation for this. You simply believe that if you don't eat vegan junk food, then you're eating gut-healthy. You are mistaken.  They're not even fermented. If it would be fermented plants, then maybe, maybe. Make sure you're using can bings that you are rinsing them. Hey, you guys. I bought a can of pinto beans. It's organic. They are for it is healthy.  Can you eat it? It's no mystery. Vegans don't know. Still. Wow, man. I said it before. This is peasant food. This is what people ate if they didn't have enough meat. Still, nevertheless, they would add meat into those beans. This can never be the predominant source of protein for human beings.  There is no adaptation phase. And then they buy probiotics. I saw this episode and it says C-O-M-I-V-N-G. Like how many years? Everybody thinks that it's human. For now, it's cute. Yeah. Man, chili powder. Yeah, if you have gut issues, eat chili powder. Great choice. The best choice. I can't make this up. This must be sarcastic. It has to be. OK, let me stop you right there. Think about it. Forget about your food for a second. Just take those spices like that and drink them. Honestly, put them into a cup and drink all of those spices like so. How will your gut react to those spices? Gut healing! This is something else. It's burning. It's burning something else. It's a smacked cup of honey. Oh, yeah. Look how much seasoning she needs in order to eat those beans in the first place. Wow. It's burning. It's a smacked cup of honey. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There you go, there you go. This is crazy. It really is. Gut health, you guys. Gut health! Do do do. Do do do. Do do do. Do do do. The avocado here might be the only thing that you are actually able to digest if you're tolerating avocado. That is, and if you're not allergic to avocado. You won't meet like everybody. Just give you... Is it working? No. Potato on top. I will see. It's not working. This is how you do it. I'll do mine. It's hilarious. When I was a vegan, I thought as well that if I eat a wide range of plants, a wide range of potatoes, then I'm eating healthy. My gut was killing me. My digestion was totally destroyed. But nevertheless, I still ate sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, because they digest so well. That's what they tell you. But here you are having gut issues. Why? Okay. Take it and go. Stab it? One, two. There we go. Stab it. Yeah, stab it. Open it. One ounce. There you go. Yuck. She's making it hard on her digestion on purpose. This is crazy. I really don't know what to say anymore. Eating potatoes, rice, beans, avocado, and all kinds of spices in order to heal your digestion. How? Why? This is really bad, man. And more onions. Onions act antiseptic just by the way.  Garlic is wild. Nice. My Indian viewers know that onions and garlic are medicinal, and you can use them occasionally. If you use them every day, you're destroying your gut flora. I'm eating healthy because I'm eating vegetables. Simple. It never ends. For some reason, I said that I want some vegan mozzarella or vegan cheese on top of itself. That's what we did. Yes, you are listening to your body. And yes, your body wants vegan cheese, vegan mozzarella. And you can see those cravings in there. This tomato pasta sauce is of course replicating meat in this instance, then the fake dairy, then the nutritional quote unquote yeast, which is as well a cheese substitute. You will never substitute cheese, but this is what you try to replicate here. You are admitting that your body craves animal fats, but you're denying it. Every single time. Aside from the pasta having gluten, of course, which is absolutely terrible for gut health. Sometimes I'll have a little gut bread with it, but today I deny it. I try to keep my gluten. At a minimum, just be mindful of how much gluten I'm consuming, because if I consume too much, it does affect my digestive system.  You have issues with your gut health, a.k.a. you're sitting on the toilet all day long, but you're not really trying to fix it. You're staying within your plant-based delusion, hence you call yourself plant-based princess, not able to break out of that conditioning. Your body is craving animal foods.  Your body wants to heal, but you're not letting it. Yeah. Okay. All right. And this is it for today's video.  If you liked it, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel, all the links are in the description box below. Check them out. We have organic grass-fed freeze-dried organs for you.  Thank you so much for your support. All right, guys, but this is it. As always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace. Thank you.


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She just drinks to make herself forget. Her husband divorced her about a year ago, just because she went out on a few parties he didn't approve of. She's been alone ever since.  Usually you'd be the first to condemn anyone who plays around the way I understand she does. All right, Nick, think what you'd like. Just as long as we get her home to her apartment so I can put it to bed. Who's going to bed? My friend's young yet. Let's go somewhere. The only place you're going, young lady, is home to bed. Who's that? I don't know him. Oh, yes, you do, Sally. That's Nick Carter, the man I work with. Never heard of him. This the place? Just ahead, Patsy? Yeah, stop at this first entrance. She lives on this side. Okay. Come on now, Sally. This is where you live. I'll get out first and give you a hand. Help myself. Don't need a hand. Can take care... Want me to go up with you? No, Nick, you wait here. She'll be all right. All right. But don't let her keep you up there all night. I won't. Oh, I better go after her. She'll fall in the lily pool if she's not careful. Yeah. She's getting pretty close to the edge of it. You're better... That's terrifying. Come on. What's the matter, Sally? What is this? The pool. The pool. Down, does he? No, he lives this way, rally. Okay. Holy smokes, Nick. Look in his back. Yes. A knife. Right between the shoulder blades. Did you find the body, Nick? Not exactly. It was Patsy's girlfriend who found it, really. What's her name? Sally Reeves. Oh, that one. Where is she now? Oh, Patsy's putting her bed. She lives in this house. She's, well, slightly under the weather. She happened to find him. Oh, Patsy and I were at a small friendly gathering and she walked in. Got well lit up and wrecked the party. Patsy wanted to bring her home, so we did. As she went by the pool, she started screaming. I came over here and found this. Let's have a look at him. Nick, that's Arthur Reeves. What? That's Sally Reeves' ex-husband. And you say she found him? That's right. Very interesting. Maybe she found him because she knew just where to look for him. But Riley seems to think Sally did it herself. He's a dope.  Maybe she did kill him. Oh, Nick. Well, she certainly acted guilty enough when they questioned her. That doesn't mean anything, and you know it. Maybe, maybe not. Well, Riley will find out. Oh, Nick, you can't leave it to Riley. Well, that's certainly what I'm going to do. This is none of my affair. Nick Cardi, you've got to make it your affair. No, Patsy. But I'm not going to see Sally put in jail for something she didn't do. You've got to help her, Nick. And why? Because I asked you to. That's why. Oh, Patsy. Oh, Nick, will you do it? Well, I suppose I'll have to if you put it that way. Oh, Nick, I knew you would. But it's against my better judgment. I don't care why you do it, just as long as you do it. Now, where do we start? Well, I guess the best thing is to go down and see Riley in the morning. Find out just how the case against her stacks up so far. Then we'll see where we go from there. Patsy. Hi, Riley. Lieutenant, have you let Sally out of jail yet? Let her out. I should say not, Patsy. She's in for good the way it looks now. She did it all right. Riley, do you mind telling us just what the case is against her so far? No, I don't mind at all. Which side are you on in this, Nick? I'm on the side of the law, just as I always am. She'd know me well enough for that by now. Oh, sure, sure. Well, here it is. Reeves was Sally's ex-husband. He divorced her for seeing too much of other guys, and she hated him for it. In spite of the 500 bucks a month alimony he was paying her, or it's supposed to be paying her. She said he hadn't paid her anything for the last three months. Exactly. Now, you've proven my case for me, Patsy. Now, Reeves' partner tells me that Reeves was having a tough time making both ends meet, and that the law would pay in his alimony. He spent too much on his second wife. And here's another thing. Reeves just took out a $50,000 insurance policy in this Sally's favor. Hmm. Is that so? He had to. That was part of the divorce settlement. You should have done it before then. Yeah, I know. But that insurance policy is another swell motive for Sally to want Reeves dead.  Well, here's another point then. She says she got to your party about 9.30 or 10 o'clock. Well, the medical examiner says the guy was killed at least by 9 o'clock, so she could have killed him and gone to your party for an alibi. Where does she say she was from, say, 8 o'clock up to the time she got to our party? She says Reeves called her and asked if he could see her about 8.30. So she said yes, and sat in her apartment, waiting for him, but he never showed up. So she says, it's a fine alibi, I don't think. It's no alibi at all. Who was the last one to see Reeves alive? Oh, his partner, Workman. He said Reeves was at the shop, but left to go to see Sally about something. Amazing. Now, everything points to Sally, isn't it? Oh, it came to me as if Nick is natural. She did it. She didn't do it, and Nick's going to prove it. Oh, is he now, Betsy? Well, how's he going to get around the facts? Nick's going to dig up some new facts, Lieutenant. Then you'll see how wrong you are. Well, maybe, but I doubt it. Look, Lieutenant, can I see Sally? Oh, sure, sure. I guess it'll be all right. Would you like to see her now? If I can. Okay, I'll fix it. You go ahead with your investigation, Nick. I'll go back to the office and wait for you when I'm through here. All right, I'll see you then in a little while. I think I'll go down and have a talk with Reeves' partner first. Now, Mr. Workman, you say Reeves was here in the store last night after dinner? Yes, Mr. Carter, he was checking stock with me. Then he left to see Sally. That was about 8.30. He said he'd be right back to help me finish checking. Did he say why he wanted to see her? He said he was going to ask to let him out of some of the alimony he owed her. I see. But he didn't come back. No, I stayed here by myself until about one o'clock. Mm-hmm. I should judge by the type of furs you carry here, Mr. Workman, that you must do a pretty good business. That's right, Mr. Carter. Then how do you account for Mr. Reeves having such a hard time keeping up his alimony payments? Well, Mr. Reeves is a heavy spender. He spent money freely himself, and his second wife was extravagant. Mm-hmm. Did Reeves have any insurance in the partnership? The kind, I mean, that leaves you any money if he dies. Oh, no, Mr. Carter, we talked about it, but decided it wasn't necessary.  Oh, not the slightest. We've always been the best of friends. Mm-hmm. Well, thanks for your trouble, Mr. Workman. I guess that's all for now. Any time I can help you, let me know. Oh, by the way, mind if I use your phone? Oh, not at all. It's on the desk over there. Thanks. Just want to call my office. I'll be in the back room if you want me. Thank you. Oh, Patsy, how'd you find Sally? Nothing new. That is nothing definite. I'm going to see Reeves' wife. Then I have to drop in on the DA, so I may be tied up the rest of the day. Well, that's good. What's so swell about it? I bet you I find something to help prove she's innocent. Or guilty.  You drop over there around 8 o'clock tonight. I'll show you what I've found. Okay, see you about 8 then. At Sally's apartment. What's your plan to live in this place? Patsy! Patsy, where...? Patsy, what happened, Patsy? Patsy, can you hear me? Yes, what's the matter? Be, for Nick at least, the routine investigation has suddenly taken a strange turn. What's happened to Patsy? And what does this have to do with Nick's attempts to find out who really killed Arthur Reeves? We'll see in just a moment. 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We left Nick trying to revive an unconscious Patsy so he could find out what had happened to her in Sally Reeves' apartment. Feeling better now, Patsy? Yes, Nick. I'm all right. That's what I'd crack on my head. Well, what happened? Can you tell me? I don't quite know, Nick. Standing here in front of the bedroom mirror trying on Sally's new fur coat. Well, Nick, isn't that heavenly? Yes, yes. It's certainly a valuable piece of fur. But what happened, Patsy? Well, as I was trying on the coat, a man came through the door. He's wearing a mask. He told me to take off the coat and give it to him or he'd kill me. I told him I wouldn't do it. Did he have a gun? Oh, I didn't see one. How'd he talk? Well, it's sort of funny, as if he were trying to disguise his voice. He might have had something in his mouth. Probably did. It's an old trick. Without your best friend wouldn't recognize you. Then what?  Good for you. Not so good, Nick. Look at my fingernails. They're all broken. Oh, they'll go in again. Then what happened? He hit me and knocked me down just as you rang the buzzer.  Then I must have gone out cold. You were certainly completely out when I found you. What does all this mean, Nick? Why did Sally get this coat? Oh, yes, her ex-hubby gave it to her instead of some bag alimony to the odor. He took it out of the stock at the store about two weeks ago and brought it to her. Took it out of the stock at the store, huh? Well, does that mean something to you? I don't know, Betsy. But either this coat is tied up with a murder or it's an extraordinary coincidence. Well, how can you find out? Get the history of the coat, first of all. Well, how do you do that for heaven's sake? I know a man who can tell me. Come on. I'm glad you phoned him in advance. I'd hate to have made all this trick for nothing. Hello, Mo. Nick, how are you? Come in, come in. This is Betsy Bo on my assistant, Mo. How do you do? Hello, glad to see you. And now, what is this puzzle you say you got for me, eh? Here's a fur coat, Mo. Have a look at it. It's beautiful, Nick. Beautiful. What can you tell me about it? Well, it's, why, at least forty years old. Well, that isn't what I mean. What can you tell me about the coat itself? Everything I could tell you about it, Nick. But I might have to rip it apart a little here where it's sold. Go ahead. I want to know as much as you can tell me. Sure, Nick, sure. Now, I rip a little of the lining here and cut a few of the stitches here with the skin that's all together. Now, look, Nick. You see this little blue mark on the skin here? Yes. That means the coat was sold by Fishbone Brothers. And their mark, the skins were sold together by Herman Schultz who works for them. Nobody else in the business stitches like Herman. Anything else? Fishbone Brothers make up the coat, they send it to a retailer. That's all I could tell. Suppose they could tell me anything else about it? You can ask them. They got a store right on the block from me. I could telephone them that you are coming, and they should take good care of you right away. Thanks, Mo. Oh, by the way, that knife there on the counter, is that any particular kind of knife? All for your sumic garments, you, then, Nick. That is a good knife for training the skins. Is that it, you ask? Oh, just saw it one while ago, and I was curious. Come on, Passy, let's go see Fishbone Brothers. Well, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Carter, but I wanted to be sure of the facts. This coat was sold by us to Perry Long. And Perry Long sold the coat to a Mrs. Jackson Moody, who lives in Boston. But three months ago, she reported it stolen and offered $500 reward for its return. $500? Oh, Nick, we complained that reward. We found the coat. You found it, Passy. The reward's yours if you want it. Is that what you wanted to know, Mr. Carter? Yes, thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Oh, Passy, call Riley and tell him to meet us at Reeves and Workman's Place. What are we going back there for? I want to see if Workman can add anything to what we already know about this stolen coat. Goodbye. Oh, goodbye. I didn't expect to see you again tonight. I just want to ask you a few more questions, if you don't mind. No, no, not at all. Come in, all of you. Working pretty late, aren't you? Yes, I am. You see, without Mr. Reeves, there's so much more for me to do. Pretty dark in here for you to be working, isn't it? Oh, no, I can see plenty well in this light. Well, Lieutenant Riley has to make some notes. Make notes? And what, Nick? Why, and Mr. Workman's answers to my questions, naturally. Sure you won't mind if I turn on another light, will you, Mr. Workman? Oh, now really, Mr. Carter, I don't think... Nick, look! His face is scratched right across the cheek. Yes, there was a cat sleeping on a pile of furs a little while ago. I didn't see him, and when I tried to move the furs, he jumped at me and scratched me. What an alibi. Now, what was it you wanted to ask me? Well, first, Mr. Workman, I'd like your permission to look around your shop a bit. Oh, now, see here, Mr. Carter, I don't see what rides you around. Riley! Come in here and... See that Mr. Workman stays where he is while I take a look around the place. Oh, look here, you can come in here and do this. I said where you are, Workman. Nick knows what he's doing. But I don't understand what... Just sit tight. Nick'll tell you when he's ready. Wow. This is an interesting package, Workman. Addressed to some firm out in San Francisco. Seems to be full of pieces of fur coats, some odd neck pieces, and some other odd pieces of fur. All expensive fur, too, if I'm not mistaken. That's just some pieces I had left over. I don't think so, Workman. What do you think they are, Nick? I think Workman is a receiver of stolen fur. Ridiculous. He cuts them up and ships them to the west coast. His accomplice out there ships his stuff east. And they put them together and mix the furs up so they can't be identified. You're crazy. I wouldn't get mixed up in anything like that. Raleigh? Ever seen a knife like this one before? Hey, golly, Nick, that's the same kind of knife that killed Reeves. You're quite sure? Of course I am. That same dark-colored handle, the same two metal bands around it. I'd know that anywhere. That's the same kind of knife we saw at Mo's a little while ago, Nick. Except that the handle is different. Exactly, Patsy. The knife's a regular furrier's knife. But I imagine at some time in the past year, Mr. Workman had new handles put on all his old knives. Right, Mr. Workman? Say, now, look here. If you're trying to connect me with Reeves' murder, you're all wrong. I didn't kill him. Ever see this fur coat before? No. And I suppose you weren't the man who tried to take it away from Patsy tonight at Sally's apartment. No, of course not. What's that about, Nick? You didn't tell me about anybody trying to rob Patsy? Reeves gave Sally a very expensive fur coat out of the stock here at the store instead of paying her some back alimony. But Reeves didn't know it was stolen. Then when you arrested Sally, Workman knew he had to get that coat back before you found it, recognized it from the description that's been sent out and traced it back to him. So we tried to steal it from Patsy tonight in Sally's apartment. Lies! All lies! Then Nick, I'm beginning to see what you're leaving up to. Do you, Riley? I'll say I do. Reeves finds out that Workman is dealing his stolen furs. They get into a fight about it. Workman tells Reeves the coat he gave to Sally was stolen. Reeves is sore and starts for Sally's house to get it back. That's where he was headed when he was killed last night. I'll bet that's it. Go on, Riley. You're doing well so far. But when Reeves leaves, Workman gets scared. He doesn't want Reeves to tell anybody he's selling stolen furs, but the only way he can stop him is to kill him. So he grabs one of his foreign knives, beats it up to the apartment house before Reeves gets there, waits for him and kills him. Why, it's as plain as the north on your face. You're crazy, all of you.  Where were you between 8 and 10 last night? I told you I was here in the store, taking stock, alone. That ain't no alibi. Come on, Workman. I'm taking you down to headquarters. We've got ways you're making fellas that have nothing to say. Talk a lot down there. No, I was right, Nick. Sally didn't do it. Oh, Nick, you're wonderful. Well, thanks for those few kind words, Patsy. Okay, Riley. Take him down to headquarters and wait for me there. Well, age will come, Nick. Oh, there's one last bit of evidence. That'll clinch this case, Riley, and I think I know right where to put my hand on it. Meet you in your office in about half an hour. Four of you gathered here to welcome me. Riley, Patsy, Sally, and Mr. Workman. Now let's sit down and be real cozy. What's all this about, Mr. Carter? They won't tell me anything, except that you've got some use for me. It's okay, Nick. Okay, Riley, go right ahead. Well, Sally, it's like this. Mr. Workman here is the man who killed your ex-husband, Arthur E. That's a lie, Riley. Oh, no, Tate.  Just wait till the jury gets it. Then you know I didn't do it. Of course, we know it.  I should've known you wouldn't kill him. Isn't it wonderful, Sally? You're free. And Nick did it. I knew he would. Now, I can collect the $500 reward for recovering the stolen fur coat. Oh, it's just super, super, Patsy. You collect that money, and I'll collect the $100,000 on the insurance that Arthur took out for me. I don't think you will, Sally. But, Mr. Carter, why not? Yes, Nick, why can't you get that money? Sally. Yeah?  But you didn't see him at all, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, that's right. I waited and waited, but he didn't come. Riley. Mm-hmm. Got the things you found in Reeves' pocket? Well, sure, Nick. There you are. Sally, in Reeves' pocket was a bill for women's clothes addressed to you postmarked the morning of the murder. It must have been delivered to you that afternoon. Now, if you didn't see Reeves, how did that bill get in his pocket? Well, I... You did see him, didn't you? Yes, he tried to take my fur coat away from me, but I wouldn't let him. And you got into an argument about money, didn't you? He was broke and couldn't give you any, so you gave him this bill and said he could at least pay that, right? Well, he...  But I didn't kill him. Workman did. Workman didn't kill him, Sally. You did. After he left, you grabbed up that furrier's knife, ran down the stairs, rushed over to where he was still standing beside the pool and plunged the knife in his back before he knew you were there. I never owned a knife like that. I couldn't have done it. Ever see this picture, Sally? Huh? I found it in your apartment a few minutes ago. A flashlight shot of a tea party you had in your apartment. Dated three months ago. And on the table is one of Workman's fur knives being used as a cheese knife. So you did own a knife like that. All right, I...  I had to have money quick. I got a lot of bills that have to be paid. He wouldn't give me any money. Assurance is all I could get. Oh. So I killed him. Well, Nick, so she did do it. I was right all the time. I told you I didn't do it. I knew you didn't do it all along, Workman. But I had to do it this way to break down the case against Sally. Sorry. You say you knew all along, Nick? Certainly. A new Workman couldn't have done it because he'd never have chosen such a public place as a court inside a large apartment house at nine o'clock on an early fall evening. There's altogether too much chance of us being seen. He'd have picked a much safer spot. Furthermore, he never would have killed him before. He got that stolen coat back from Sally. No, Riley, only someone who was so mad they didn't stop to think would kill a man in such a public place. Well, didn't I... I got a little Workman go. He was dealing in stolen furs, wasn't he? Why, you're right, Nick. I'll see that he gets his for that, I will. Come along, you and your tour, Sally Reeves. I'm going to put you on board right where you belong. Hey, Lord, was you all right for the very first time? Man, you tried to finish your beer. Well, I was certainly wrong that time. You certainly were, Patsy. Completely wrong. She wasn't like that when I knew her years ago. Times changed. So do people. You couldn't know what she's like now. I'm sorry, Nick. Gee, I suppose I'll never hear the end of it. You'd prefer we weren't, Patsy. They don't feel too bad.  And the right person is going to pay for Reeves' murder. Those are the things that really matter, always. In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview of next week's exciting case. But before they do, a word to the wise. When you use Linux Clear Gloss on your floors, linoleum, furniture and woodwork, they look as though you'd spent hours polishing them. And yet, Linux Clear Gloss is so easy to apply, so easy to keep clean. Linux Clear Gloss is a durable protective coating which is brushed on easily, drying without brush marks to a tough, transparent surface that sturdily resists alcohol, perfume, crude acids, boiling water and hot grease. The brilliant beauty of Linux Clear Gloss is a constant source of satisfaction to every homemaker, for it wears and wears, keeping its good looks for a long, long time. Linux Clear Gloss keeps dirt on the surface, too, where it's easily wiped away. So protect and beautify every wood and linoleum surface in your home with Linux Clear Gloss. 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The sheriff found one big clue that satisfied him, but Nick found a number of small clues that really solved the murder. What do you call a story, Nick? I call it murder in the night. Or the mystery of the milkman's discovery. So long for now. So long, everybody. And so long to you, Nick and Patsy. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week. Next week at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter, master detective, entitled Murder in the Night. Or Nick Carter and the mystery of the milkman's discovery. Nick Carter, master detective, is a copyright feature of Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. It is presented at the same time and over these same stations by the three great Linux home brightness. Linux clear gloss, Linux cream polish, and Linux self-polishing wax created by ACME, America's great producer of ACME quality paints. In the Nick Carter adventures, Long Clark is starred as Nick. Helen Cho is featured as Patsy. 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Hey guys, my name is John Hammond and welcome back to a little bit more Pico CTF 2018 video write-ups So this challenge is called Caesar cipher one the challenge prompt here is this is one of the older ciphers in the books Can you decrypt this message? You can find the cipher text at this location on the shell server and I've downloaded this file already Let's move into that directory that I've created for it We can check out the cipher text. It has Pico CTF like the flag format we would expect But the inside of the flag is kind of gibberish. So what I'm gonna do is actually cut this up Let's just get that first portion here and then I am just going to Cut the other portion of it out because I don't care what it is And then I'm gonna go ahead and try and loop this through a Caesar cipher And you could do this with an online tool if you really wanted to just find like that deco Dot FR website or whatever they could that could break and crack this But I'm gonna try and do it from the command line because I think that's cool, right? So I'm going to pipe this into Caesar Tack, I guess whatever number I wanted Caesar again is a utility that's installed with pseudo app installed BSD games with rot 13 I've showed that a little bit ago if let's say I want to use two or three or four or whatever So if I were to just loop through all of those I can do the very beginning of the line for I In and in bash syntax you use curly braces to note and then one dot dot to say a range And I'm gonna go to 26 So let's have a semicolon there to start kind of the code block with do and then I'll use Caesar dollar sign I so I have a bash variable that will expand to whatever iteration. I'm currently looking at and then Semi-colon to note the end of that command or the end of the yeah that that line in the code block And then we'll make that code block finish with the done block there so I'll hit enter and we got all of these lines pumped out and You can see blah blah blah a little bit of English right here It says just a good old Caesar cypher. Oh boy. Oh geez Okay, and that is what our flag is going to be so let's just take note of that Let's just say flag dot text pico CTF and I'll paste that in You could probably detect this however you wanted to in in that but that's a simple way to just kind of get all the solutions So let's go ahead and submit this right Submit awesome. All right next challenge is called environment It says sometimes you have to configure environment variables before executing a program Can you find the flag we've hidden an environment variable on the shell server? Yes? Let's go check out the shell server. I click open this link over here See how my internet fares Let's log in here John Hammond YouTube Enter my password My password is password With like all capital ASS All right, let's change directory. Do I need to change it? No, no, I just need to get the environment variables So a cool command that you can actually just use to list all the environment variables is simply ENV and You'll notice as we kind of take a look through this We have mail path these things all kind of set up and there's pico CTF flag set to a nice try keep looking But if we just kind of scroll up You'll see secret flag equals pico CTF environment variable flag So since ENV will literally just display all of it. It's not too hard We could script this if we were to automate our ssh connection Maybe we'll do that later, but in this case, I'm just gonna go ahead and submit this flag Let's kind of jot that down though. We can move our Caesar cipher one to be marked complete and then We'll just keep track of our environment flag Just for good habits, you know next challenge is called hurts It says here's another simple cipher for you where we make a bunch of substitutions Can you decrypt it and it gives us a net cat connection that we can connect to? So let's make directory hurts get in there Hurts Hurts What the heck okay cool whatever tab autocomplete was not having my my day right now Net cat connect. It's all this crap where there's the text seeming is seemingly different each time But it should still I don't know potentially give us a flag if we wanted to I'm just gonna throw this an X clip If you wanted to you could you could kind of copy all of it But what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go ahead and throw this to quip quip which is a awesome tool quip quip comm That will essentially solve substitution ciphers and it's kind of my go-to when I know it is a substitution cipher So I'm just gonna spit this in there hit the solve button let it like do its thing run its course do that voodoo magic and We should eventually get some solution out of it.  I don't know what that last one may be hand bone boson Let's get another string And we can go ahead and give it That's kind of one of the neat things is that we're well. We're getting a lot of these different Cypher text messages that we could use and we could just keep using quip quip until we figure out something that kind of makes the flag Form out a little bit more understandable. It looks like it is just kind of giving us Have to there it is congrats here is your flag substitution ciphers are solvable and then random letters following that So good we can just go ahead and submit that wrap it in our flag our flag format And we've got that one done as well. So perfect super super cool Quip quip is an awesome tool and totally what you should just kind of use as your knee jerk reaction and low hanging fruit for Substitution ciphers. It's definitely good to know Alright, it's everyone's favorite time on the video again where I say the same thing in every single video Thank you patreon supporters. You're the best Hey $1 month on patreon is gonna make my life so much better. 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