First pass with links to 400 files

It looks as if Google might think these pages are duplicates so a Cononical statement has been added to each of the three ypc pages on November 25 in the eearly afternoon.

It's interesting that prior to Grok, and the ability one has to ask complex question of Grok, that discovering how to use .htaccess - or even that one can - to prevent indexing of a class of files, would have taken many internet searches, and then would only have revealed the answer if the right things had been looked up.

But with Grok the ability to ask questions such as 'how do I...?' makes arriving at the conslusion and the means by which one might achive the objective much simpler and more direct. However it is not all plain sailing.

In response to one question about generating many copies of a file, each one with a different name, that name selected from a list in a text file, Grok gave a couple of really quite complicated and tortuous answers. Fortunately, having seen the correct answer some weeks before but having forgotten it, Grok was prompted to suggest another asnswer. That too was tricky and not one that was recognised.

It was only on the third attempt that Grok gave the simple answer, which involved a single line entered into Command Prompt. Easy to do, no fiddling around with obscure setting anywhere.

So whilst Grok helps greatly Grok still lacks the human common sense to give the simplest and easiest way of doing something. But Grok is improving and learning so Grok will get there before too long no doubt.

This is a very interesting experiment to see how quickly Google finds new links and shows them on the Pages lists in Google Search Console. So far it's been a slow process and there seems to be a lag between uploading and crawling and a lag between crawling and crawled links appearing in the Pages lists.