The easiest fix?

Take the year out.
You don't need it.

Probably a hangover from the Cloudflare outage.

I'll send Googlebot some flowers if it continues. Get on its good side.

Thanks again. I enjoy the Barry + John double acts when they occur. Very reassuring.

Thanks chaps. ❤️

In these widespread outages does Googlebot get into a huff about a site if it's returning a 500 for a long duration - is there material damage to rankings?

Have you seen many big decreases?

I would hope that the Disavow file is used for signals about the untrustworthiness of the site. I chuck in a lot more domains that proxy or scrape/rewrite our content these days.

[I use 0-9, A-Z for our file for my achey human eyes to see what's what. Currently 870+ domains in our disavow]

Bug Hunters didn't perceive it as a suitable issue.

Fortunately our Ad Partner Publisher Collective has a Google contact who have raised it on our behalf.

Canonical hijacks continue.

I bumped into a friend who works on (rival) PC Gamer and told him what to look out for. We want to win clean :)

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