Baron Munchausen’s Crawl Test Lab

Indexing and canonicals

I pulled myself from the swamp by my own pigtail.

Robots directives and canonical tags tell search engines which pages to keep. These pages show directives that hide a page, and canonicals that point to the wrong place, to a redirect, or to nowhere.

Every page on indexing and canonicals

Rain followed me around Portugal for a month, like a loyal and rather damp dog. I tried running. I tried hiding in a church. At last I scratched it behind the clouds and sent it home to the Atlantic. On some gray days it still comes by to visit.

Swiss children still sing of my skates. One icy winter on Lake Geneva I went so fast that I crossed it before I had left. I met myself coming back, and we bowed. Only one of us could pay the bill at the inn, so I sent him.

Comets are simply horses with good lungs. I roped one over Sweden and rode it bareback past Saturn. The tail singed my britches. At the far turn I jumped off and landed in a haystack near Malmo, just in time for a rather dull wedding.

Starving out a fortress takes patience, which I have in great amounts. At Ismail we sat for a year. I got bored and began to bake. The smell of bread went over the wall. By evening the gates flew open, and they all stood in a line with butter.

Cobblers in Vienna made me a pair of boots that argued. The left wished to go to Italy. The right preferred the sea. I split the difference and walked.