Earlier today, Gary Illyes over at Google tweeted a rather interesting redirect pattern he was allegedly working on at the time. Looks like some good old fashioned regular expression (i.e. regex) coding:
As if on cue, all the SEOs begin wondering what that tweet could mean.
John Mueller followed up with his own eyebrow-raising comments, in true Mueller fashion:
Exactly how much of the Google algorithm’s behavior is there “just to mess with us?”
The answer remains to be seen, and it could simply be Mueller’s sense of humor.
Either way, we love it.
